2024.12.31

Should We Abandon the Leap Second

We have been adding “leap seconds” to time kept by our atomic clocks, but soon we may have to subtract one. Are the tiny adjustments worth the bother?

credit: Matthew Twombly

credit: Matthew Twombly

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