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Move to Cancel May Leap Second
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures has decided to permanently abolish the use of leap seconds starting from May 2026, in order to prevent technical disruptions and paralysis in digital systems, especially amid growing concerns about changes in Earth's rotation speed around its axis. The temporary adjustments will be replaced by a "Leap Hour" system, allowing the time difference to gradually expand until a full hour needs to be added after thousands of years. This approach aims to reduce previous errors experienced by major digital platforms such as Google and Microsoft. The decision is a step toward unifying atomic and astronomical time, with an expectation that a full hour will not need to be added for approximately three thousand years.
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