For more than 50 years, a group of timekeepers has been quietly sneaking extra seconds onto the world's clocks.
For more than 50 years, a group of timekeepers has been quietly sneaking extra seconds onto the world’s clocks. Now they’ve voted to stop, and the moon is getting its own clock. Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli breaks it down.
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