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This year will be one second longer because the Earth is turning slower

 

This year will be one second longer to compensate for the Earth’s slowing rotation, time experts have ruled.

But it is feared the ‘leap second’ added at midday on June 30 by scientists at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris could spark internet crashes.

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