The Way Our Time Works Has Just Changed Forever
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In 2012, the U.S. social news and online community site Reddit went down. The reservation system of Australia's Qantas Airlines was also paralyzed, leaving passengers stranded. This was all due to the failure to make leap second adjustments on time. The commotion was caused by missing the one-second correction required to adjust the difference between natural time and the time indicated by atomic clocks. From now on, once every year and a half
Researchers have developed a time measurement system adapted to Mars, essential for future missions, based on Einstein's prediction, confirming that time flows differently on the red planet due to its unique gravitational environment.
From next May 20 the second intercalare, that aligned the time measured by our clocks with the speed of the terrestrial rotation, will be replaced by the intercalare hour, with a consequent simplification for the digital infrastructures
After over 50 years of leap seconds, researchers have decided to abolish the system.
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