They approve decoupling atomic clock time from Earth's rotation to prevent global technological chaos.
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By Antonio Martínez Ron15/10/2026 às 13:5428 views
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The 28th General Conference on Weights and Measures has eliminated the 'leap seconds' to maintain Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and expands the acceptable discrepancy between solar time (marked by Earth's rotation) and atomic time (marked by cesium clocks) to defer potential global technological…
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