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Why clocks sometimes gain a second
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Because the physical spinning of the planet is highly irregular, mechanical atomic clocks inevitably heavily drift out of sync with solar reality. To prevent digital networks from accidentally mathematically sliding into the wrong afternoon, chronologists physically pause the global digital timeline for exactly one extra second to let the lumpy planet catch up.
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