No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

comments (10)

• "To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time" is just the best preamble ever.

  bombcar 49m ago

• What causes the unpredictability in this? I would have guessed we have earth's rotation and orbit down to many decimals. Does geological activity, weather, or something else cause rotation speed differences that we just can't predict?

  doctoboggan 23m ago

• Hear me out. We can just mount jet engines along the equator and rotate them 180 to gain or lose time. And then connect them to my snooze button.

  delichon 30m ago

• They should have a global holiday to celebrate the people who maintain time/date related code in OS kernels that keeps the world from imploding.

  t1234s 25m ago

• > The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is :

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  > from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -37s

  This means the atomic clock is behind the solar clock by 37 seconds? I also don’t understand the reference to 2017.

  exegete 24m ago

• As one HN comment said years ago: I feel leap seconds have always lived in the wrong abstraction layer.

  They should live in the same abstraction layer that does leap days and daylight savings: the time zones.

  returningfory2 26m ago

• What happens to systems such as Spanner under these circumstances?

  Is it a headache or a non-issue

  srean 37m ago

• I enjoy how Chrome asks me if I want to auto translate from German to English. Where did it get German from? It's French!

  voidUpdate 52m ago

• Does this mean the negative leap second isn't happening anymore?

  Wingy 57m ago

• Notice they only said leap second.

  Meanwhile....

  International timekeepers to vote on changing the leap second to a leap hour

  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/international-tim... (https://archive.ph/GnQUj https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842329)

  ChrisArchitect 34m ago