ScienceThe ‘leap second’ could disappear. How a minor time adjustment became a major problem
Humanity has used leap seconds for more than 50 years to keep clocks aligned with Earth’s rotation. An international timekeeping body in France is expected to abolish them on Thursday, allowing clocks to drift until they are an hour out of sync—a gap that may take centuries or millennia to correct.
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The ‘leap second’ could disappear. How a minor time adjustment became a major problem