The majority of nations voted to scrap leap seconds – the little jumps added to UTC time to keep it aligned with Earth’s rotation. What can we expect moving forward?
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Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania
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Research scientist, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Physics and Analytics, University of the Pacific
