Feed excerpt — reported by The Verge
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 tracked time standards mirror the Earth's real […]
MAP records observable characteristics of the original article (publisher, author, date, references, framing cues). MAP does not verify the article’s claims or score it. Read the full original story at The Verge →