Sorry Steve,
I sent my post before seeing yours.
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Cheers, John.
Dr John Pickard.
On 21-November-2022 14:56, Steve Lelievre wrote:
Apparently the Powers That Be have officially decided that Clock Time
is right and Solar Time is wrong.
Or to put it another way, the International Bureau of Weights and
Measures has voted to stop using Leap Seconds by by 2035.
However, an IBWM representative said "the connection between UTC and
the rotation of the Earth is not lost [...] Nothing will change [for
the public]" which apparently means we'll have less frequent
adjustments instead (leap minutes?).
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-global-timekeepers-vote-scrap.html
Steve
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