leap hour

We hardly knew ‘ya. In fact, unless you are a website or a time nerd, you probably have never heard of it or cared. But, the people in charge of time (yes, there are people in charge of time) have for decades decided to add a so-called leap second to time to account for the vagaries of the earth’s movement around the sun. The people in charge of time, known as the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM because French like FIFA), earlier had decided that they would scrap the leap second by 2035, but in...