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Earth to lose its time-bound status?
January 18, 2012
The rotation of the Earth has defined time for as long as time has been kept, but keeping up with all of Earth's little quirks by adding and subtracting an occasional leap second is getting tiring. Timekeepers could vote Thursday to rely solely on atomic clocks. Read this
fascinating report in the
Christian Science Monitor.
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