The planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second — called a 'negative leap second' — around 2029, a study finds.
<p>NEW YORK — Earth's changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second.
</p><p>&quot;This is an unprecedented situation and a big deal,&quot; said study lead author Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of 
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A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocksFor the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster.
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A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocksFor the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster. Wednesday's study in a scientific journal says that clocks may have to skip in a second — called a “negative leap second” — around 2029.
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