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gmiller123456 on July 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s time to leave the leap second in the past

UTC was never to make astronomy applications easier. The only thing that has changed is that cheap computers make it easier for astronomers to use UTC as a starting point.

ncmncm on July 25, 2022 [–]

Then it was for nobody. Astronomers find UTC leap seconds as much a nuisance as everybody else.

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