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		gioazzi on Dec 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Storing Times for Human Events Time zones are an abomination. It’s UTC or bust /s (or not?)

Terr_ on Dec 13, 2024 [–]

Even UTC has leap-seconds. You could go a step further to TAI which is pretty stable unless some phenomenon starts changing the rate at which Cesium atoms vibrate.

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