GENEVA: Timekeepers meeting in Geneva failed to agree on a proposal to abolish a 40-year-old practice of adding the occasional second to world time.
The International Telecommunication Union put off a decision, saying more study was needed into whether to scrap the leap second — the extra moment added to atomic clocks to keep them in sync with the earth’s rotation, which is slowed by the gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon.
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