Today an international group of scientists, diplomats, and timekeepers voted to end the leap second, which has been keeping Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) aligned with the time according to Earth’s rotation (UT1) within one second of difference.
A new system, called the “leap hour,” will allow the Earth’s rotation and official time to fall out of alignment by a full hour
Astronomy has gotten way too easy since we accepted elliptical orbits. Let’s kludge it the fuck up again.
Astronomy works great. It’s the world’s software that can’t handle 61 seconds in a minute and keeps crashing every time there’s a correction.
Piece wise Weirstrauss function orbits?
It will make your differential equation based orbit solvers more fun!