The participants in the 28th General Conference of Weights and Measures decided to abandon the addition of leap seconds to world time from May 2027, Izvestia writes. Now adjustments will only be made when an hour discrepancy accumulates, which is expected not a thousand years ago. The index is designed to protect against malfunctions of switchboards, servers and navigation systems, whose software is not ready for a possible reduction of time against the background of the accelerated rotation of the earth.