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Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. The Verge is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 16 Oct 2026, 10:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
An important change will soon be made to global timekeeping that aims to prevent potential infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) voted to scrap the leap second, an ad hoc time adjustment that's occasionally added so tracked time…
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