{
  "id": 16919339,
  "title": "The Leap Second is History. Long Live the 'Leap Hour'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/the-leap-second-is-history-long-live-the-leap-hour",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-28T14:02:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Universe Today",
    "slug": "universe-today",
    "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-leap-second-is-history-long-live-the-leap-hour"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Time and time-keeping is a hot topic once again, as many of us ‘fall back’ to Standard Time this coming weekend. Another time-related dilemma was also addressed this month, when a key conference did away with the leap second and the alignment of Universal Time (UT1) with Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). Somewhere off in the distant future, we’ll need to add minutes to the clock to come back into…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}