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jthill t1_iwza3pi wrote

Reply to comment by FIicker7 in The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks by 1r0ut3

Jesus, buddy, do you ever bother checking?

GPS time started at UTC in 1980 and has never applied leap seconds since. It's straight atomic clock. This will put UTC in lockstep with GPS.

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FIicker7 t1_iwzd5p5 wrote

Nope I didn't. Thanks for calling me out.

I assumed this resolution would desync countries.

But the article does mention that Russia's constellation is not able to comply which will cause problems (Not that I care).

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