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- Title
Time is running out for the leap second.
- Authors
Merali, Zeeya
- Abstract
The article focuses on the possible abolition of the leap seconds of the Coordinated Universal Time (UCT) during the World Radiocommunication Conference of the International Telecommunication Union to be held in Geneva, Switzerland. It says that leap seconds are added to keep UTC in solar time at a rate of one minuet every 90 years. According to director Elisa Felicitas Arias, leap seconds are nuisance because it cannot be programmed into software.
- Subjects
GENEVA (Switzerland); SWITZERLAND; SPACETIME; SOLAR cycle; INTERNATIONAL Telecommunication Union; ARIAS, Elisa Felicitas; APPLICATION software; CONFERENCES &; conventions
- Publication
Nature, 2011, Vol 479, Issue 7372, p158
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/479158a