Most people dont know this but every so often, scientists add a leap second into our global clock, UTC. Instead of going from 23:59:59 straight to midnight… the clock shows 23:59:60. That means the day has 86,401 seconds instead of 86,400. But here’s the problem: what happens when computers see a time that technically… shouldn’t exist? Some systems freeze. Databases crash. Servers reboot. All because they weren’t programmed to handle that extra second. Now here is Google’s fix… They smear the leap second spreading it out over a whole day so systems never hit it 23:59:60. But that raises another question: should we even be adding leap seconds at all? In 2022, the world’s official timekeepers the General Conference on Weights and Measures voted to phase out leap seconds by 2035. Which means UTC will stop adjusting for Earth’s rotation, and civil time will slowly drift away from the natural solar day. So here’s the debate: should we change time to match the planet… or change the p...