#leaphour — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #leaphour, aggregated by home.social.
-
To fix problems caused by Earth's unpredictable rotation speed, scientists are proposing replacing the leap second, the current solution, with a leap hour.
"In other words, ironically, leap seconds were created to fix time discrepancies but ended up creating a “technical nightmare” at odds with modern society’s highly computerized infrastructure [...]."
-
To fix problems caused by Earth's unpredictable rotation speed, scientists are proposing replacing the leap second, the current solution, with a leap hour.
"In other words, ironically, leap seconds were created to fix time discrepancies but ended up creating a “technical nightmare” at odds with modern society’s highly computerized infrastructure [...]."