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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

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Submitted by yourSAS t3_z1wqh0 on November 22, 2022 at 3:40 PM in Futurology

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MpVpRb t1_ixeuqg7 wrote on November 22, 2022 at 10:22 PM

This is a good thing. Leap seconds are hard to manage accurately and cause lots of problems

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