What Is A Leap Second, And Why Do Amazon, Facebook And Google Want To Scrap It? - IFLScience

Quick question: how long is a day? If you said 24 hours, we're going to be pedantic and tell you no, you are wrong. So wrong, in fact, that if we left you in charge of satellites there would be utter chaos.

Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft have launched a campaign to finally be rid of the "leap second", joining the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Bureau International de Poid… [+4765 chars]

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