Time for decision on removing leap seconds

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 16:00 in Earth & Climate

GENEVA (Reuters) - Experts have recommended eliminating leap seconds from the time scale used by most computer systems, but governments are split on the issue, to be decided this week, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) said Tuesday.

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