Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second

Fecha de publicación: 16 de octubre de 2026, 10:00

An important change will soon be made to global timekeeping that aims to prevent potential infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) voted to scrap the leap second, an ad hoc time adjustment that's occasionally added so…