US and French timekeeping authorities concur.

Instead of 23:59:59 changing to 0:0:0 at midnight, an extra 23:59:60 is tucked in.

The temporal tweak causes more problems – like internet outages – than benefits, they say.

“Perhaps at that point we might need to consider a correction.

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The tech giants and two key agencies agree thatit’s time to ditch the leap second.

Computers are really good at counting.

But humans introduce irregularities like leap seconds that can throw a wrench in the works.

Adding a leap second causes problems with computers.