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BIPM votes to stop adding leap seconds to UTC
Original: BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures has decided to stop adding leap seconds to Coordinated Universal Time, ending a practice in place since 1972 that kept atomic time aligned with Earth's irregular rotation. The change means UTC will gradually drift from solar time, a shift that Metrologists have debated for years because leap seconds have caused outages in computing and navigation systems.
Why now: The BIPM's formal decision to abolish leap seconds is a historic change to global timekeeping with wide technical implications.
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