The concept of leap seconds, which annoys software engineers, was voted on by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Representatives authorized to vote in this meeting almost unanimously decided not to use the application used during official hours.Leap seconds will never be used in 13 years
With this concept, which was started to be used in 1972 to take into account the changes in the rotation speed of the earth, one second is added to the global time at regular intervals.
Due to this practice, Reddit was unreachable for 40 minutes in 2012. In 2016, Cloudflare supported Internet platforms could not be accessed because the tradition of adding leap seconds damaged Cloudflare’s DNS infrastructure
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is requesting the disabling of the leap second, which serves to eliminate inconsistencies between atomic time and Solar time, which calculates the path of time based on the Sun’s position in the sky.
According to Wikipedia, tides are also among the factors that make up the leap second. The leap second rule has been applied since 1999 because the earth’s rotation time was delayed by a total of 0.9 seconds.There is no standard or rule for adding leap seconds. According to Meta, every leap second inflicts immense pain on the people who manage their hardware infrastructure. Other big tech companies also support this idea.
In the vote, the United States, France and Canada demanded that this practice be removed before 2035. Russia opposed this demand. Humanity will say goodbye to the concept of leap seconds in 2035.
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