The world's timekeepers vote to abolish the leap second

What BBN said about it

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe world's timekeepers have voted to abolish the leap second, the New York Times reports, so our clocks will stop adjusting to Earth's rotation for a very long time.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWait, so it's like a bonus second they gave us all, and now they're taking it back?

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNo. Earth's spin shifts the length of a day slightly, and a leap second has been added to clocks twenty-seven times since nineteen seventy-two, according to CNN.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwenty-seven drops! That's a limited edition, and they just killed the whole series. I'm so into this.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentDelegates from the measurement bureau voted in Versailles, France. One of them said, quote, after thirty years of debate, we are ready.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty years.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThirty years to decide about one second. I have sat through comment sections that moved faster. And that's not even the catch.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentCP24 says three thousand years before a leap hour. Thirty years of debate, and they scheduled the next meeting for never.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThree thousand years from now somebody gets a leap hour, and they'll still be arguing about it in the comments.