Re:An Update on Leap Seconds
by layer8 on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:01AM
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As the article points out, what is being broadcast to keep systems synchronized is UTC, and TAI only exists on paper, or as derived from UTC. (Note that even if you have an atomic clock, that isn't TAI. TAI is some average of atomic clocks distributed over the earth, due to gravitational and hence relativistic differences.) UTC is effectively our master clock, and changing that would require a large number of technical and legal changes. So it's much easier to just increase the DUT1 tolerance and stop having new leap seconds.
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