How an accelerating Earth led experts to adopt the leap hour
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Coverage (3)
- Why have time experts stopped adding extra seconds to our clocks? RTE.ie · 30d ago
- The leap second is scrapped to prevent a major tech crash, international scientists vote 10TV · 30d ago
- Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug The Register · 30d ago
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