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164461564 story Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon launched a public effort Monday to scrap the leap second, an occasional extra tick that keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's actual rotation. US and French timekeeping authorities concur. From a report:
Since 1972, the world's timekeeping authorities have added a leap second 27 times to the global clock known as the International Atomic Time (TAI). Instead of 23:59:59 changing to 0:0:0 at midnight, an extra 23:59:60 is tucked in. That causes a lot of indigestion for computers, which rely on a network of precise timekeeping servers to schedule events and to record the exact sequence of activities like adding data to a database. They say the temporal tweaking causes more problems than benefits. Since the Earth's rotation speed hasn't changed much historically, dealing with leap seconds is futile. If we stick to the TAI without leap second observation, we should be good for at least 2,000 years. We may need to consider a correction at that time.
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