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Why we need a leap second added to our clocks

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Why we need a leap second added to our clocks

Tuesday 31st January 2017 11:00 am

As New Year’s Eve ticked over to 2017, scientists added an extra second to atomic clocks to compensate for the Earth’s variable rotation. But there are pros and cons to doing this, as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki explains.

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