Earth to lose its time-bound status?

January 18, 2012 17:57

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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