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Re:Experts consider consequences of ‘leap second’ elimination by modeless on Thursday September 19, 2013 @06:41PM (#6414775)
Unfortunately the day fluctuates, and is actually lengthening over time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuations_in_the_length_of_d...

We need at least one unit of time which is fixed and unchanging in order to do scientific calculations, and we have chosen the second to be that unit.

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