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International Business Times
International Business Times
Science
Daniel Lawler and Juliette Collen

Climate Change Is Messing With How We Measure Time: Study

Climate change may have delayed the need for the world's timekeepers to add a "negative leap second" to standard time (Credit: AFP)

Struggle to wrap your head around daylight savings? Spare a thought for the world's timekeepers, who are trying to work out how climate change is affecting Earth's rotation -- and in turn, how we keep track of time.

In a strange twist, global warming could even help out timekeepers by delaying the need for history's first "negative leap second" by three years, a study published on Wednesday suggested.

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