World clocks may soon skip a second as Earth spins faster - Here's all you need to know

[Hasan]

World clocks may soon skip a second as Earth spins faster - Here's all you need to know Dennis McCarthy, retired director of time for the US Naval Observatory who wasn’t part of the study, said the trend toward needing a negative leap second is clear, but he thinks it’s more to do with the Earth becoming rounder from geologic shifts from the end of the last ice age