Thanks to a speed-up of Earth's rotation, the length of the astronomical day and the length of the clock day aren't quite ...

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community ...

Global timekeepers have voted to end the practice of adding extra seconds to UTC, citing risks to computer systems and the prospect of the first-ever negative leap second.View on euronews ...

Since 1972, experts have added 27 seconds to Coordinated Universal Time to keep it aligned with Earth's rotation, but it has ...

In the biggest shakeup for timekeeping in over 50 years, a key vote has severed the connection between the Earth's rotation ...

You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during the leap year. Timekeepers added that extra leap day because Earth completes one orbit around the Sun in ...

The leap second is being abolished. The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) has decided in Versailles, near ...

A new form of global timekeeping is about to be introduced that could forever change how our clocks work. A vote by the ...

Timekeepers add a leap second occasionally to keep our clocks and the Earth's rotation in tune. That could now change.

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Over the course of several years, modern time systems can become a few seconds out of sync with the Earth’s movement. To ...