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Leaping seconds and looping serversLeaping seconds and looping serversPosted Jul 4, 2012 3:28 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Leaping seconds and looping servers by xman Parent article: Leaping seconds and looping servers
Does anybody actually use TAI for anything?
As far as scientific time keeping it's already been found to be fundamentally flawed due to the fact that they didn't take the effect of gravity into it. and is probably going to be replaced by something else eventually that is adjusted for altitude.
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Leaping seconds and looping servers Posted Jul 4, 2012 13:26 UTC (Wed) by andreasb (subscriber, #80258) [Link]
Going by what's on the Wikipedia page, it has been corrected for altitude (normalized to mean sea level) since 1/1/1977. The former uncorrected TAI got the new name EAL.
Leaping seconds and looping servers Posted Jul 4, 2012 18:32 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
> Does anybody actually use TAI for anything?
GPS does. The GPS timestamp is TAI with a fixed offset.
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