Time Lords decree an end to leap seconds
The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has made a decision, and declared that the world can do without leap seconds.
Leap seconds have occasionally been added to official timekeeping records to reflect changes in the Earth's angular rotation and a way of measuring time called UT1.
While UT1 is valid and correct, the world also measures time using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) – a time scale produced by BIPM.
Adding leap seconds to satisfy UT1 messes with UTC, and that makes time's overseers unhappy.
Leap seconds are also painful to promulgate in the digital realm. The Linux kernel's inability to handle added leap seconds caused plenty of crashes in 2012. A 2015 leap second also caused issues and in 2016 Cloudflare stumbled when confronted with the need to add a second.
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