an expert explains why the tiny clock adjustments will be paused from 2035
- Written by: Darryl Veitch, Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney
ShutterstockMeeting in Versailles, France, on Friday, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has called time-out on “leap seconds” – the little jumps occasionally added to clocks running on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation.
From 2035, leap seconds will be abandoned...
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