There is a risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment in Coordinated Universal Time, and there is a plan to allow it to deviate by up to an hour. The prospect of a negative leap second, combined with decades of frustration with leap seconds in general, seems poised to lead world timekeepers to postpone the problem.
Next month, the General Conference on Weights and Measures is expected to vote on what is, in practice, the end of leap seconds, according to The Register. The system is numbered and should come to an end in 2035.
A draft resolution would make permanent the deviation between International Atomic Time and Coordinated Universal Time, gradually eliminating the need for leap second adjustments that have caused problems in computer and technology systems worldwide.
