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World Time to be adjusted by one second: IT Impact hopefully will be minor
Also the ITU may vote this week on a proposal, effective in 2018, to eliminate leap seconds, which will result in a drift between the mean solar day and UTC of about 140 sec by the end of the century. This proposed change, led by USA and France, will mitigate industry problems in synchronizing communications and financial networks, however the resulting drift will accelerate as the Earth slows, leaving future generations to decide whether it is desirable to keep civil time in sync with the sun, and how best to accomplish this.