Decade progress ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 99%
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Specifically, the 2010s were 99% complete as of exactly 11:31:12 UTC on Monday 25 November 2019
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Cripes I forgot to take leap seconds into account, despite having specifically created a JavaScript library so that I could easily take leap seconds into account in cases like this https://twitter.com/sortiecat/status/1200146005930446848 … https://github.com/qntm/t-a-i
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There were three leap seconds this decade and there isn't one scheduled for 31 December, which means the actual 99% point was thirty milliseconds earlier, at 11:31:11.970 UTC
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> const tai = require('t-a-i') > const start = tai.unixToAtomic(Date.UTC(2010, 0, 1)) > const end = tai.unixToAtomic(Date.UTC(2020, 0, 1)) > new Date(tai.atomicToUnix(start + (end - start) * .99)) 2019-11-25T11:31:11.970Zhttps://github.com/qntm/t-a-i
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Leap seconds are only announced six months in advance. We don't know how long the 2020s are going to be
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Specifically, leap seconds (or lack thereof) are announced in IERS Bulletin C, which is charmingly addressed "To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time"pic.twitter.com/Qn7FoJbLSX
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The 2010's did pretty well well by being a second longer than the 2000's but four seconds shorter than the 1990's. But I look forward to the 2020's that should be about 86400 seconds longer than the 2010's plus/minus the opinion of some french astronomers.
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Did you forget about 29/02/2000 ?
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