#ANONGBALITA One second less per minute likely delayed to 2029

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In a strange twist, global warming appears to be helping out timekeepers by delaying the need for history’s first “negative leap second” by three years, a study published last week suggested.

But in recent years a new problem has emerged that few saw coming: Earth’s rotation has been speeding up, overtaking atomic time.This means that to bring the two measurements in sync, timekeepers may have to introduce the first ever negative leap second. “Many computer programs for leap seconds assume they are all positive, so these would have to be rewritten,” he told AFP.

He determined that if not for climate change, a negative leap second might have needed to be added to UTC as soon as 2026.

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