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A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers to Subtract a Second From World Clocks

TIME reports Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second.
A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers to Subtract a Second From World Clocks
For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second — called a “negative leap second” — around 2029, a study in the journal Nature said Wednesday. “This is... ...

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