History · June 30, 1972

Leap second

54 years ago

54th anniversary

A leap second (sometimes called intercalary second) is a one-second adjustment occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured precisely by atomic clocks, and observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and…

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