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Earth Rotation Records Spur October Vote to Avert Negative Leap Second (www.techtimes.com)
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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

1 leap second annually would result in having 1 leap hour every 3600 years. But we have them less than annually, so it would take even longer. How are they getting to the 50 year figure?

Also: why would 1 leap second mean that two seconds disappear? It should go from :58 to :00 - that's one leap second. 0:57 to :00 is two leap seconds.