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midasuni on Aug 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Leap Smear

Why are we happy to have clocks drift by a second? Why not have leap milliseconds or leap nanoseconds? Or conversely leap minutes or hours?

1 second changes seem arbitrary

GranularRecipe on Aug 6, 2021 [–]

Second is the SI base unit of time. Whether it makes sense is a different question, but it is not "arbitrary".

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