The world’s timekeepers are getting rid of the leap second in favor of pure atomic time. “It will take a few thousand years for atomic time to diverge as much as an hour from Earth time.”
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The world’s timekeepers are getting rid of the leap second in favor of pure atomic time. “It will take a few thousand years for atomic time to diverge as much as an hour from Earth time.”
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