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Scientists just voted to redefine how the world keeps time (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Today an international group of scientists, diplomats, and timekeepers voted to end the leap second, which has been keeping Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) aligned with the time according to Earth’s rotation (UT1) within one second of difference.

A new system, called the “leap hour,” will allow the Earth’s rotation and official time to fall out of alignment by a full hour

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[-] smoothspoon@feddit.online 38 points 3 days ago

It's funny that the easiest way to break infrastructure around the world is not to be a world class hacker, but to ask computers to simply subtract a second from their clocks.

[-] Flower@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

For a computer, it's as confusing as the international date line for people

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