Race against time: When a minute lasts 61 seconds
Horologists around the world on Saturday will carry out one of the weirdest operations of their profession: they will hold back time.
Horologists around the world on Saturday will carry out one of the weirdest operations of their profession: they will hold back time.
Leading scientists from around the world are meeting in Britain from Thursday to consider a proposal that could eventually see Greenwich Mean Time relegated to a footnote in history.
The organization in charge of the Internet's address system is taking over a database widely used by computers and websites to keep track of time zones around the world.