You might have heard, that CGPM will vote on whether to (de facto) abolish leapseconds in October, due to the technical problems it causes, each time we have a leapsecond. And because of the prospect of the first ever negative leapsecond.

https://datacenter.iers.org/singlePlot.php?plotname=BulletinA_All-UT1-UTC&id=6

What not enough people are talking about is that earth is very likely speeding up because of climate change:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01478-2
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2406930121

#leapseconds #climate #climatechange #science #timenuts

Just read that the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) is officially abandoning/abolishing #LeapSeconds by the year 2035, because they are just so disruptive to computer systems.

Tell me you can't get a handle on software bugs without telling me you can't get a handle on software bugs. ;)

cat /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list

#leapseconds #time #utc #tai #ntp

""In the current Leap Second Debate, there are rational arguments, focused on practical considerations, and there is a certain unspoken unease, emerging from the symbolic substrata of the issues involved," [Rev. Paul Gabor, astrophysicist and vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona] writes, seemingly on behalf of those unspeaking."

Forget the provenance-- it seems a valid point.

The tech whining sounds a bit lame.

#LeapSeconds

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/leap-seconds-could-become-leap-minutes-despite-pushback-from-russians-vatican/