A Giant Leap for the Leap Second. Is Mankind Ready?

People gathered to observe a leap second in 2012 outside the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Tokyo. A top scientist has proposed a new way to reconcile the two different ways that our clocks keep time. Meet — wait for it — the leap minute. Later this month,…

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