The world’s top metrology body has decided to end the practice of adding ‘leap seconds’ to official clocks to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation from 2035. It was declared by all the scientists in  General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in Paris to discard the 'leap second'. Yes, confusing as it sounds, leap second is something we are hearing this on internet a lot that 'leap second' is going to end. Let's dig deep into the concept and understand it. The time we follow all over the globe is decided by Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, where a day lasts 86,400 seconds, i.e., a day is counted as 24 hours, 60 minutes and 60 seconds. A second is calculated by on the average of around 400 atomic clocks. These clocks are so accurate that they lose only about a second in 14,00,000 years. But due

Author-Dr.Aishwarya Nair