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Timekeepers set to scrap leap seconds, letting clocks drift from Earth
Original: Our clocks and the Earth are slowly drifting apart — and timekeepers may let it happen | CBC News
An international timekeeping body meeting in France is expected to abolish the leap second, ending a practice used for over 50 years to keep atomic clocks aligned with Earth's rotation. Officials plan to let clocks gradually drift out of sync with the planet, a change driven by the difficulty and disruption of inserting leap seconds into global systems. Scientists and technologists are debating what the long-term divergence will mean.
Why now: The international decision on abolishing leap seconds was expected this week, prompting wide discussion of its technical consequences.
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- Our clocks and the Earth are slowly drifting apart — and timekeepers may let it happen | CBC News · CBC
For more than 50 years, humanity has used "leap seconds" to keep our clocks aligned with the rotation of the Earth. On Thursday, an international time-keeping body in France is expected to do away with leap seconds and let the clocks slip until they're out of alignment by a…
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