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competition refresher magazine this article was published in the magazine leap second the general conference on weights and measures (cgpm) passed a resolution to do away with the leap second from 2035. o cgpm is the supreme authority of the international bureau of weights and measures (bipm) that decides on global standards for how things are measured. competition refresher magazine pdf bipm is the intergovernmental organization established in 1875 under the terms of the metre convention. leap second is the second inserted in international clocks to align universal coordinated time with the earth-tracking universal time. introduced in 1972 so far there have been 27 leap seconds competition refresher magazine subscription.