Surprise! We've been adding leap seconds for 50 years
Until today, I bet you never heard of leap seconds -- seconds, not years. Ever since 1972, we've been occasionally adding a second to our global clock to account for variations in the speed of the earth's rotation. As it slows down, we add a second. So far, we've added 27.
Meta, a company not necessarily known for always having our best interests at heart, is, it turns out, no fan of leap seconds. Meta wants to do away with them, and made its case this week inThis isn't personal, Meta says : The company's global network faces the same challenges as all others when it comes to this seemingly harmless extra tick-tock of the clock.
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