Thanks To Earth Speeding Up, We Could Scrap The Leap Second As Early As Next Month -- And Gain The First Ever "Leap Hour"

The solar day is 24 hours long. That's the time it takes the Earth to complete one full rotation on its axis, and as far as humans can tell, this is very accurate. However, we live in a world of high-precision machines that deal with the effects of physics that we don't feel. For the machines, a 24-hour day is definitely not exact. Left to their own devices, clocks will slowly go out of sync, which is not exactly ideal. Since the 1970s, authorities have been mitigating this by adding a leap second every so often in order to keep...