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Isopbc t1_ixdt5yw wrote

Reply to comment by hankbaumbachjr in The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks | The practice of adding ‘leap seconds’ to official clocks to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation will be put on hold from 2035, the world’s foremost metrology body has decided by yourSAS

Clocks aren’t diverging, the earth’s rotation changes when big earthquakes happen.

The issue would be the clock will not match the point of the sun in the sky… by a second or two.

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Penny_is_a_Bitch t1_ixfy1eb wrote

not just earthquakes. inner earth isn't perfectly balanced, which can throw off rotation. the moon creates drag. oceans... etc, etc.

my timeframe might be off but back when dinosaurs were around, days were 22h. rotation has been slowing for a long time.

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hellojuly t1_ixgkj8q wrote

Sun doesn’t match the clock pretty much everywhere. That’s a good enough reason not to bother with leap seconds. If the difference doesn’t balance out naturally then they can have a leap 22 seconds when it’s needed.

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