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leap-second

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• In 2022 the CGPM voted to phase out the leap second by 2035, citing critical-infrastructure resilience
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · timekeeping, leap-second, metrology, standards-governance, infrastructure
• Cloudflare's 2017 New Year's DNS outage traced to code that assumed elapsed time can never go backwards
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · timekeeping, leap-second, infrastructure-failure, software-bugs, metrology
• Did Russia vote against the 2022 leap-second resolution to push the deadline to 2040, and does GLONASS's use of leap-second-adjusted UTC explain the objection?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · timekeeping, leap-second, GLONASS, GPS, geopolitics
• The leap second: from a metrology patch to a geopolitical standoff to a 2035 abolition vote
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · metrology, timekeeping, leap-second, infrastructure-failure, geopolitics