TAI zone?

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Fri Jul 1 12:35:15 UTC 2011


Guy Harris said:
> "Corresponds exactly in rate with TAI" sounds like "ticks once per second".  I'm not sure what "the UTC scale" in "The UTC scale is adjusted by the insertion or deletion of seconds (positive or negative leap-seconds) to unsure approximate agreement with UT1." means; does it mean that the "integral number of seconds" between UTC and TAI varies over time (which means UTC is *not* a counter that ticks once per second), or does it mean that if you attach date/hour/minute/second labels to values on the UTC scale, they don't always go from, say, {date}/23/59/59 to {date+1}/00/00/00 - they might jump from {date}/23/59/58 to {date+1}/00/00/00, or from {date}/23/59/59 to {date}/23/59/60 to {date+1}/00/00/00?

The latter.

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