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lifthrasiir on Nov 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop ...

I now realized that the parent meant everything should have been TAI from the beginning, which is indeed a valid take. We can't switch to TAI today only because we are already using UTC.

Original comment: Only those who never tried to actually use TAI yourself can claim that you can use TAI instead of UTC without a problem.

myself248 on Nov 18, 2022 [–]

Just have 37 leap seconds to bring UTC into sync with TAI, then lock them together.

That won't break anything...

lifthrasiir on Nov 18, 2022 | [–]

Yes, that's what the CGPM eventually decided to do because they know UTC will have to stay.

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