▲ 1106 ▼ Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 243 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Reasons. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (2 children) Reasons just states difference, but does not answer why. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dukk@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) On the other hand, TAI does not take into account the variations in Earth's rotation speed, which determines the true length of a day. For this reason, UTC is constantly compared to UT1. Before the difference between the two scales reaches 0.9 seconds, a leap second is added to UTC. On average, Earth has been slowing down a bit over the past decades, so UTC is currently running 37 seconds behind TAI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago So leap seconds is advantage here? permalink fedilink source parent [–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago There's literally a section titled 'why use UTC - not TAI?'. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] uis@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (2 children) Reasons just states difference, but does not answer why. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dukk@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) On the other hand, TAI does not take into account the variations in Earth's rotation speed, which determines the true length of a day. For this reason, UTC is constantly compared to UT1. Before the difference between the two scales reaches 0.9 seconds, a leap second is added to UTC. On average, Earth has been slowing down a bit over the past decades, so UTC is currently running 37 seconds behind TAI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago So leap seconds is advantage here? permalink fedilink source parent [–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago There's literally a section titled 'why use UTC - not TAI?'. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dukk@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) On the other hand, TAI does not take into account the variations in Earth's rotation speed, which determines the true length of a day. For this reason, UTC is constantly compared to UT1. Before the difference between the two scales reaches 0.9 seconds, a leap second is added to UTC. On average, Earth has been slowing down a bit over the past decades, so UTC is currently running 37 seconds behind TAI. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] uis@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago So leap seconds is advantage here? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago So leap seconds is advantage here? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago There's literally a section titled 'why use UTC - not TAI?'. permalink fedilink source parent
