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0 pointsfriend_and_foe3y ago0 comments

Of course they do. But government bodies and other institutional bodies incarnated these standards organizations in order to better coordinate with one another, and decided and committed to defering to them a long time ago. Russia is a sovereign state, they can make any decision they want to, but they decided and agreed at some point to defer to this organization for a reason.

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helsinkiandrew3y ago

> Russia is a sovereign state, they can make any decision they want to, but they decided and agreed at some point to defer to this organization for a reason.

I think the commenter means that there isn’t a technical reason that GLONASS can’t be changed to not add leap seconds not that Russia doesn’t have to defer to an international body.

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helsinkiandrew3y ago

> Russia is a sovereign state, they can make any decision they want to, but they decided and agreed at some point to defer to this organization for a reason.

I think the commenter means that there isn’t a technical reason that GLONASS can’t be changed to not add leap seconds not that Russia doesn’t have to defer to an international body.

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