Global timekeepers to vote on ending the leap second adjustment

Global timekeepers to vote on ending the leap second adjustment

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The international authorities responsible for time measurement are preparing to vote on whether to discontinue the practice of adding leap seconds. This adjustment, which occasionally sets clocks back by one second to align Earth time with astronomical time, may be ended to change how time is kept globally.

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