10/18/2026
It's Official: Timekeepers Have Gotten Rid of the Leap Second—and Introduced the Leap Hour Instead
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Since 1972, experts have added 27 seconds to Coordinated Universal Time to keep it aligned with Earth's rotation, but it has been an imperfect fix
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