Timeline for How do launches avoid leap seconds? Why?
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| Dec 24, 2021 at 12:43 | comment | added | uhoh | @DavidHammen I've made an adjustment, is it okay now or should I delete completely. I don't recall if four years ago I just made up the acronym IAT myself or if I'd seen it somewhere, but certainly TAI is all I see now. | |
| Dec 24, 2021 at 12:42 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 24, 2021 at 12:33 | comment | added | David Hammen | This is a late comment that pertains to the parenthetical (IAT). The acronym is TAI, period. It is TAI (not IAT) in English speaking countries. It is even TAI in Russia, China, and other countries that do not normally use latin characters. | |
| Mar 11, 2020 at 18:04 | history | edited | called2voyage♦ |
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| May 19, 2018 at 12:58 | vote | accept | uhoh | ||
| Jul 10, 2017 at 16:19 | comment | added | Cody | New Horizons is going to reach its extended mission target on Jan 1st 2019.. I wonder if the difference in times will affect that mission too. | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 13:07 | comment | added | krillgar | Because they have already had problems with conversion between metric and imperial units, so why add another conversion error to the mix? | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 3:45 | answer | added | ChrisR | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Jul 10, 2017 at 2:56 | history | suggested | Basil Bourque | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2017 at 23:05 | comment | added | David Hammen | @Joshua -- If only that was the case. Sadly, it's not. | |
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| Jul 9, 2017 at 18:09 | comment | added | E.P. | Because however well you think you've debugged your system, particularly with one-off conditions like leap seconds, things do eventually break (example). If it's some website then it's ultimately not a huge deal, but if there's a nontrivial amount of explosive fuel on the line, then how willing are you to have some random bug actually set things on fire? | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 15:05 | comment | added | Joshua | My mind is boggled. Space flight normally uses TAI which doesn't have leap seconds. | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 11:41 | answer | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 11:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/884005227321376770 | ||
| Jul 9, 2017 at 9:05 | answer | added | David Hammen | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 7:55 | answer | added | Uwe | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 3:17 | history | edited | uhoh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2017 at 3:08 | history | asked | uhoh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |