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[–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Ok they stopped doing it in 2016 because it’s all caught up now and everything is fixed and working properly now right?

On 15 October 2026, the General Conference on Weights and Measures(CGPM) voted to discontinue the addition or subtraction of future leap seconds with effect from 20 May 2027, and to increase the limit on maximum permitted variance to one hour

What? So now it can be off by up to an hour before it gets adjusted?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Kerberos and SSL require no more than a 5 minute deviation. This is gonna be fun. Though I guess as long as everyone is synchronized or pulling from the same source it doesn’t matter. What’s an hour between friends.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    Kerberos and SSL don't care if the earth is in the correct position (reasonably or otherwise) relative to the sun and/or planets. Clocks being in sync with the physical planet is irrelevant. They are still gonna be just as in sync globally along each other with sub-second precision as always (sub-ms precision in many cases).

    Being up to an hour off will start having a noticeable impact on sunset/sunrise, but for some reason we fuck with that twice a year by an hour anyway so who cares I guess?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    It's essentially a 'We don't really care if it's in perfect sync to the earth spin all the time, we'll just sync it manually at some point in the future'. Which, fair, do you really care if 12pm is the exact physical high noon or off by a few minutes?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    As an environmental scientist, I care. It hurts me that there is a drift in my data that is entirely anthropogenic and I must spend time to account for.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    We have DST changes because when we should have an extra hour of daylight matters. If its going in one direction though, we can just make DST 2 hours earlier and standard time 1 hour earlier. Not sure of direction. Cancel changes midway through.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    DST is the dumbest thing ever and needs to die.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    It would be dark at 9am where I am on some winter days without it. Without standard time, I'd get woken up at 4:30am though, some days.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago