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Re:The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC by TrainedMonkey on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:27PM (#50113680)
I concur that this is probably a good thing, but UTC without leap seconds already exists. That is TAI and some applications that care about long term persistent and self-consistent telemetry use that.
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Re:The technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC by cbarrick on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:59AM (#50117306)
I agree, except that TAI is off from UTC by 37 seconds.

That's a pretty big smear if you want to convert an existing clock from one to the other.

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