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CGPM votes to retire leap seconds immediately

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CGPM votes to retire leap seconds immediately

Member states of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) approved a resolution at the body’s 28th meeting outside Paris on 15 October 2026 to retire the leap second immediately, rather than by 2035. The change replaces occasional one-second…

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