a scientific decision to cycle our planet.
Up the General Conference on Measurement and Weight (CGPM) in Versailles, France, has made a groundbreaking decision to metrologists and researchers from all over the world: from 20. May 2027 the so-called leap second in the Coordinated World Time (UTC) will be suspended for the time being and effectively terminated.
So far, the international time measurement has regularly compensated for minimal irregularities in the Earth’s rotation with the insertion of an additional second – since 1972, this has happened a total of 27 times.
