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Re: The leap second is dead
From: David Iwancio
Date: 2022 Nov 19, 13:22 -0800
From: David Iwancio
Date: 2022 Nov 19, 13:22 -0800
I would have thought that multi-billion-dollar tech companies could have simply bought some laser gyroscopes and measured UT1 directly and autonomously.
We just recently abandoned the use of a physical, manufactured artifact to define the kilogram, so why does it feel like we're doubling down on using one to define our epoch/timestamps?
