Community-crashing leap seconds to be deserted by 2035, for not less than a century
Enlarge / An astronomical clock in Prague, Czech Republic.
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There will not be many issues you will get Fb, Google, the USA, France, and Linus Torvalds to agree on, however certainly one of them has come to move.
A near-unimous vote on Friday in Versailles, France, by events to the Worldwide Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM in its native French) on Decision 4 implies that beginning in 2035, the leap second, the remarkably sophisticated method of aligning the Earth’s inconsistent rotation with atomic-precision timekeeping, will see its use discontinued. Coordinated Common Time, or UTC, will run with…