It seems like everything with our calendar is based around 24hr days and the number of 24hr days to revolve around the sun. But a 24hr day can be broken down to 1,440 minutes and in turn 86,400 seconds. How did we (humans) calibrate the second so that exactly 86,400 would be 1 rotation of the earth to the point where we never need something like a “leap second” like we have with leap years?
In: Planetary Science
It gets so much more confusing and precise 😀 calibrating clocks across the world with NTP.. high precision local clock calibration down to nanoseconds in a small network with PTP, atomic clocks, universal coordinatedtime (UTC) vs international atomic time (TAI).. leap seconds, the leap smear ..
Time is way complicated!
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