Rejoice, leap seconds are dead!

There will never be a leap second again. At least not for UTC. At the CGPM , they decided the last leap second we’ll ever see for UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, happened back at the end of 2016 . Of course they made that decision while I was out on vacation, so I’m just getting this video up now: But what’s the CGPM, why does this matter, and why am I excited about it?

Reproduced from the Jeff Geerling feed. No model was used to write this entry — follow the link for the full article.