Leap Second Effectively Scrapped

Tokyo, Oct. 16 (Jiji Press)--The international body overseeing global measurement standards on Thursday approved the effective abolition of the leap second. The gap between Earth's rotation and atomic clocks, which are highly precise, will be allowed to widen to as much as 3,600 seconds, or an hour, from May 2027. According to Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and...

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