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Next Chapter In the Leap Second Story

Posted by Unknown on from the time-what-is-time dept.

at10u8 writes "The ITU-R and BIPM are holding a joint workshop on the Future of the International Time Scale. This is the next of many steps toward the possibility that radio broadcasts of time signals might abandon leap seconds. All of the presentations are online and the press release for the workshop indicates there will be video interviews afterwards."

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  1. Re:Double time by presidenteloco · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they plan to speed up the Earth's rotation so that the computer clocks will stay synchronized with daylight.

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    Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
  2. Re:adjustment by the_other_chewey · · Score: 5, Funny

    For leap seconds I just let NNTP correct it, so it has never been an issue in the first place.

    Impressive. How did you solve the problem of time dilation due to flame wars?