• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Luckily, the standards body that deals with leap seconds has said they’ll be discontinued by 2035

    Did they figure out a way of making the earth spin more reliably per how the humans want it to?

    • dan@upvote.au
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      7 months ago

      If I remember correctly, they’re updating the standards to allow for more deviation between UTC time and “actual time”. They’ll likely replace leap seconds with a leap minute that happens much less frequently, implemented by spreading it across the whole day, similar to the leap second workaround I mentioned.