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A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38538793

“The historical association of time with the rotation of Earth has meant that Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) closely follows this rotation<sup>1</sup>. Because the rotation rate is not constant, UTC contains discontinuities (leap seconds), which complicates its use in computer networks<sup>2</sup>. …” (the page’s own description)

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