Word: nist
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...keep clocks in synch the National Institute of Standards and Technology will add an extra, or leap, second on June 30. Atomic clocks use a length of a second that doesn't represent the long-term slowing trend, so they're a teeny-weeny bit fast. Says NIST spokesman Collier Smith: "We stop the hands of the clock long enough for the world to catch...