• @aubeynarfEnglish
    7•2 days ago

    Maybe, if:

    • leap seconds only ever increment (or decrement)
    • The accuracy of the device is substantially more than 1s per year, over a long timespan.
    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 days ago

      I was going to say that leap seconds only increment, but apparently that’s just been historically true, not theoretically true according to Wikipedia:

      All have so far been positive leap seconds, adding a second to a UTC day; while it is possible for a negative leap second to be needed, one has not happened yet.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•2 days ago

      And that’s a big if. Negative leap seconds are possible, but have never been used.

      Leap seconds are to be abandoned altogether by 2035, apparently.