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New Year countdown delayed by one second

new-year-delayed-by-one-secondCounting down to 2017 will take longer than usual this New Year’s Eve (2017) as horologists compensate for a slowdown in the Earth’s rotation. While clocks normally goes from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00, the extra second is being added in between – and hi-tech digital clocks will record that time as 23:59:60. A leap second last […]

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