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@bujold @futurebird

UTC is one of those egregious screw-ups that only an international committee can make.

The powdered wigs at the Greeenwich Observatory were adamant that "noon" should be when the sun crossed their petty little meridian. But once the second came to be defined by atomic clocks, the irregular rotation of the Earth made that event wander by several seconds away from atomic 12:00:00. So the wigs convinced the IAU to insert or remove "leap seconds" in some days >>