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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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The length of a day has critical impacts on our technologies, navigation, and more.
That time is it on Earth?
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2016 has been a long year, but it’ll be made slightly longer care of a leap second. But why do we need such things?
An unusual date that comes to us from the heavens.
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We will get an ‘extra’ day this year, February 29. Where do these quadrennial liberties with our calendar originate?
Time can feel like that sometimes, even if the Earth’s rotation isn’t slowing down.
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Keeping time isn’t easy, particularly as the Earth’s rotation is slowing down, so we need to keep adding troublesome leap seconds.