Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second?

BY ALANNA MITCHELL Science Time, Weights and Measures, Navigation, Daylight Saving Time, Earth, Watches and Clocks, Leap Year, Global Positioning System, Telephones and Telecommunications, your-feed-science To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little hand. Now they’re proposing to ditch it. Will our days ever be the same? https://ift.tt/QyVixLr