"To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time" is just the best preamble ever.
What happens to systems such as Spanner under these circumstances?
Is it a headache or a non-issue
Notice they only said leap second.
Meanwhile....
International timekeepers to vote on changing the leap second to a leap hour
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/international-tim... (https://archive.ph/GnQUj https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842329)
I enjoy how Chrome asks me if I want to auto translate from German to English. Where did it get German from? It's French!
Probably from the "Content-Language: de" header
Ok but that makes even less sense
It's a mix of french and english... so it's german.
A mix of English and French is just called... English
Frenglish
Does this mean the negative leap second isn't happening anymore?
Not anymore forever. We’re just not adding one for this year. We might need one next year, we might not. It all depends on the Earth’s rotation and orbit
The only better thing is the organization being called "International Earth Rotation Service"
Sounds like something out of a Douglas Adams novel.