Every single clock, even those that are air gapped. Countdown timers lose a minute, stopwatches add a minute. Biological clocks aren’t affected.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    wouldn’t it be noticed immediately since space satellites would be out of sync, and GPS locations wouldnt be accurate etc?

    presuming worldwide = earth

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      Yeah but they said all clocks so all the sats would still be in sync just like we had a leep second it would just be a leep minute.

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      Came here to say this. Hopefully the systems in place are resilient enough to handle a leap minute (especially since they already exist), but it would definitely cause some instant issues.

      The average person probably wouldn’t notice, but anyone working with time sensitive equipment would.

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        Do leap minutes really exist? I’ve never heard of that before? I don’t think we’ve ever had 60 leap seconds since the inception of the idea.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Its ambiguous to see how different people interpret it. My thought when I typed the question was that anything that is closer to Earth than the moon is considered part of “World Wide”, but I can see how some people would interpret satelites are not part of “World Wide”.