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Can't believe the definition of UNIX Time was so unfixably bad we as a society decided we had to abolish UTC instead
(The CGPM has voted to abolish the leap second)
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Can't believe the definition of UNIX Time was so unfixably bad we as a society decided we had to abolish UTC instead
(The CGPM has voted to abolish the leap second)
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We talk about the problems with technical solutions to social problems. Well, this is a social solution to a technical problem
@erincandescent I get the joke, but to be clear : of course UTC has not been abolished, it has just been freed from its tight binding to the angle of rotation of Earth.
Starting from 1st Jan 2017, 0h UTC, any UTC time can now be expressed equivalently as a number of seconds elapsed or a fractional number of days since that time, or a calendar date + hour, min, s. This is quite something.