Here is what the page “The Leap Second Is Dead: Global Timekeepers Vote to End Controversial Practice” contains. After years of debate, the international timekeeping community has voted to abolish the leap second, the occasional extra second added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to keep it aligned with Earth’s slowing rotation. The decision was made by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) and will take effect by 2035, marking a major shift in how the world keeps time. Leap seconds have caused significant technical headaches for global systems, from computer networks to financial markets, because they are irregular and difficult to implement reliably.
Tech giants like Google and Meta, along with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have long pushed for their elimination, arguing that the risks outweigh the benefits of staying perfectly synced with astronomical time. For the complete material, the listing points back to the source inside the network.