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It's not just time zones and leap seconds. SI seconds on Earth are slower because of relativity, so there are time standards for space stuff (TCB, TGC) that use faster SI seconds than UTC/Unix time. T2 - T1 = [God doesn't know and the Devil isn't telling.]

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[–] niktemadur 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Then there's continental drift, which as Indiana Jones reminded us this past summer, Archimedes didn't know about when he built his time machine.

Pet peeve: brushing aside the time travel fantasy element, there is not a single shred of evidence of any type of connection between Archimedes and the Antikythera Mechanism.

As if the only person clever enough in Ancient Greece was that one famous dude from Syracuse.
Ionians: "Are we a joke to you?"