{"id":48166,"date":"2026-10-19T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48166"},"modified":"2026-10-19T05:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T09:00:57","slug":"worlds-timekeepers-set-to-vote-on-eliminating-the-leap-second-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48166","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s timekeepers set to vote on eliminating the leap second | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An international meeting is considering a fundamental change to timekeeping, potentially severing the ancient link between time and the motion of the Earth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/shutterstock-editorial-15233016p-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5000367053296138;width:249px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/10\/13\/science\/leap-second-elimination-time-standard\">World\u2019s timekeepers set to vote on eliminating the leap second | CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international meeting is considering a fundamental change to timekeeping, potentially severing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-48166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-time","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48171,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48166\/revisions\/48171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}