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  "id": 14789972,
  "title": "It's Official: Timekeepers Have Gotten Rid of the Leap Second—and Introduced the Leap Hour Instead",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/its-official-timekeepers-have-gotten-rid-of-the-leap-second-and",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-15T20:43:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/its-official-timekeepers-have-gotten-rid-of-the-leap-second-and-introduced-the-leap-hour-instead-180989685/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Since 1972, experts have added 27 seconds to Coordinated Universal Time to keep it aligned with Earth's rotation, but it has been an imperfect fix",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}