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leap second - Coordinated Universal Time
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FUTURE TIME McCarthy and other scientists propose a compromise in the leap-second debate: Continue to make corrections but at longer intervals.
To leap or not to leap: scientists debate a timely issue by Cowen, Ron / Science News
This year was forecast to be a leap-second year, a strange occurrence which happens every two years on average, which would have meant that there would have been 61 seconds in the last minute of the 21st century.
The time is right by McConkey, Alison / Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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