Time just changed forever

Author: Basel GhazoghliPublished on: October 22, 2026Country: International

TechnologyScience

For more than 50 years, timekeepers have occasionally added leap seconds to the world’s clocks to keep them aligned. They have now voted to stop the practice. Meanwhile, the Moon is set to get its own time standard.

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