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Pour One Out for the Leap Second - WIRED
Publisher description: The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.
NewsAPI | Oct 16, 2026 | Brian Kahn
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Leap seconds have driven a raging debate in the metrological community for three decades. But leap seconds have thrown off other systems; the airline Qantas, for example, saw its booking system borked by a leap second in 2012. Adding a leap second is hard enough as it is. That’s why BIPM also agreed to create a leap hour.
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