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> The idea that I don't know how many UTC seconds will pass between now and May 15, 2022 0:00:00 is absurd.

It's perfectly sensible though? 0:00:00 is a designation of an event. Namely, the event of midnight during a particular rotation of our planet. Every calendar day is one rotation, so May 15, 2022 is also an event -- it's that many rotations of Earth after today. But a second is a duration and it's independent of Earth's rotation. An asteroid could hit the earth and make the rotation shorter or longer (or just shatter the planet...) in the meantime. You obviously can't know how many seconds will pass until that particular midnight. It's inconvenient, but it makes perfect sense when you can't predict the future.




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