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It’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (a Decade from Now)

On Friday, an international vote was taken to ditch the leap second, a technical fudge that has caused headaches since its inception 50 years ago.

Alanna Mitchell
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France, Global Positioning System, International Bureau of Weights and Measures, International Telecommunication Union, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Navigation, Physics, Space and Astronomy, Telephones and Telecommunications, Time, Tucson (Ariz), Vatican Observatory
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