When the world skips a beat.
The article looks at international time standards, discussing the fact that the earth's rotation is not precisely 24 hours and that extra seconds must sometimes be added to maintain the synchronization between the time and the position of the sun in the sky. It notes such "leap seconds" have caused...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 143; no. 5207; p. 15 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
5/2/2014
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