this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2026
169 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

88825 readers
3758 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
169
Scientists just voted to redefine how the world keeps time (www.scientificamerican.com)
submitted 1 day ago by ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net to c/technology@lemmy.world
41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Today an international group of scientists, diplomats, and timekeepers voted to end the leap second, which has been keeping Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) aligned with the time according to Earth’s rotation (UT1) within one second of difference.

A new system, called the “leap hour,” will allow the Earth’s rotation and official time to fall out of alignment by a full hour

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Dimand@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

There is an easy solution in 100 years. You simply adjust your timezone. Something we already have the capability to do. We already tolerate hour deviations from noon.

Think of it more like that the arbitrarily zero time point on the globe moves 1 hour west. But we keep longitude fixed.

The only weird thing is more places will go to +13 and some to +14. But that's all relative.