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Re:Leap-second decision delayed by eight years by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday November 21, 2015 @07:49PM (#10608624)
No, but there's always going to be a standard time, and that one slowly becomes meaningless if we let it drift out of sync with the Earth.
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Re:Leap-second decision delayed by eight years by andrew-lucker on Saturday November 21, 2015 @10:39PM (#10608984)
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/second.html

Seconds have been independent of solar time for quite a while.

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