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Earth's rotation and clocks slowly drifting apart
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Earth's rotation and clocks slowly drifting apart

The gist

World timekeepers are set to vote Thursday near Paris on scrapping the leap second.
The call pits sky-based time against atomic clocks markets rely on.

How it unfolded

  1. 1972The first leap second was added to world clocks.
  2. 2012LinkedIn and Reddit crashed after a leap second was added; the same year, ticket bookings for Qantas collapsed after one was added.
  3. 2015The Australian Securities and Investments Commission issued a warning.

Sources

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