kalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTime lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millenniumwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkTime lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millenniumwww.theregister.comkalkulat@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square4linkfedilinkfile-text
The Earth’s been rotating faster lately. A negative leap-second was not built-into the timekeeping machinery.
minus-squareunknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months 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.