By Katie Hunt, CNN (London) — When the sun hits its highest point over the meridian line that travels north and south from the 351-year-old Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, it’s noon Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible and physical reference point that helped establish the world’s time zone system…
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Earth’s rotation is notoriously wobbly. It could alter the fate of the leap second
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The leap second is on the chopping block — and timekeeping could change forever
By Katie Hunt, CNN (London) — When the sun hits its highest point over the meridian line that travels north and south from the 351-year-old Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, it’s noon Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible and physical reference point that helped establish the world’s time zone system…
Nature, Published online: 15 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03329-z Governments have voted to abolish the leap second immediately and to replace it with a leap hour.
By Katie Hunt, CNN (London) — When the sun hits its highest point over the meridian line that travels north and south from the 351-year-old Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, it’s noon Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible and physical reference point that helped establish the world’s time zone system…
Delegates from 69 countries approve clock changeover after decades of debate – but switch may not take effect for thousands of years After decades of discussion, quibbling and worrying about clocks in computer systems, the world’s official timekeepers have voted to replace what many viewed as a tire…
The world’s timekeepers announced on Thursday that leap seconds will no longer be added to clocks starting in May 2027. The post No more leap seconds! Timekeeping is officially changing first appeared on EarthSky .
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