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By Katie Hunt, CNN (London) — When the sun hits its highest point over the meridian line that travels north and south from the 351-year-old Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, it’s noon Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible and physical reference point that helped establish the world’s time zone system. Timekeeping has long relied on Earth’s The post The leap second is on the chopping block — and timekeeping could change forever appeared first on KESQ.

By Katie Hunt, CNN (London) — When the sun hits its highest point over the meridian line that travels north and south from the 351-year-old Royal Observatory Greenwich in London, it’s noon Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible and physical reference point that helped establish the world’s time zone system. Timekeeping has long relied on Earth’s The post Earth’s rotation is notoriously wobbly. It could alter the fate of the leap second appeared first on News Channel 3-12.