kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoTime lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millenniumwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkTime lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millenniumwww.theregister.comkalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square3linkfedilinkfile-text
The Earth’s been rotating faster lately. A negative leap-second was not built-into the timekeeping machinery.
minus-squareunknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·15 days ago UTC would be unlikely to diverge from rotational time by a full hour for at least a thousand years, Shemar said. If humankind lasts that long, it might be the least of our worries. ® Lol.
Lol.