[News] World Votes to End the Leap Second, Giving Global Clocks an Unbroken Count From 2027
Metre Convention states meeting in Versailles adopted a continuous UTC that lets atomic time drift up to an hour from Earth's rotation, removing a recurring source of computer outages and a never-tested negative leap second, while Russia's GLONASS, astronomers, and a deferred "leap hour" carry the costs.
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