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Originally Posted by gary
Depending on what is decided - or not - in France today, we might, for example, see a resolution that adopts a new time standard called International Time (TI) that replaces the current UTC standard (which is used to determine your local time according to your time zone) and which may be locked to TAI and no longer be adjusted for Earth rotation.
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I wonder what the benefit of that would be. Synthetic time (or calendar) references, including the leap seconds and leap years they bring along, are easily handled by computers and don’t seem to be causing any issues. Abandoning them would cause the sun to be high in the sky at midnight in the distant future.