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TAI is International Atomic Time. It is used as the reference point for UTC, which is defined as TAI minus a fixed number of seconds (currently 37). To add or remove a leap second, the TAI - UTC offset is adjusted. Leap seconds have no effect on TAI itself, which always runs at 1 second per SI second, as measured by a consensus of atomic clocks.



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