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tai.c - why return t + 10?

tai.c - why return t + 10?

Posted Jul 6, 2012 5:43 UTC (Fri) by lindi (subscriber, #53135)
In reply to: tai.c - why return t + 10? by pr1268
Parent article: Leaping seconds and looping servers

"1 January 1972 00:00:00 UTC was 1 January 1972 00:00:10 TAI exactly" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

The new block was just for clarity.


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why t + 10?

Posted Jul 8, 2012 1:53 UTC (Sun) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

I was then going to ask why add ten seconds, but then I found out what the ten seconds were about (scroll down to the image titled "Time scales since the cesium atomic frequency standard").

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