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Timekeepers at a meeting in Geneva have failed to agree on a proposal
to abolish the 40-year-old practice of adding the occasional second
to atomic time, in order to bring it in alignment with world time as
told by the rotation of the Earth.
The International Telecommunication Union put off the decision at
Thursday's meeting, saying more study was needed into whether to
scrap the leap second.