e all know that the Earth takes 24 hours to complete one rotation. The only problem is that it doesn’t. A host of irregularities, caused by everything from the laws of angular momentum, to the tides, to even natural events such as earthquakes, means that in any given year our clocks could
Tick…tick… boom: computing’s killed the leap second
Apr 06, 2023
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