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Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second
First reported Oct 16, 6:00 AM ET · Latest Oct 16, 5:31 PM ET
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- The Leap Second Is No More — WIRED
The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.
- Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second — The Verge
An important change will soon be made to global timekeeping that aims to prevent potential infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) voted to scrap the leap second, an ad hoc time ad
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