What does LS stand for?

Leap Second

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In order for our civil time (UTC based on TAI) to keep "in step" with the changing earth rotational speed, UT1 leap seconds are added to the year from time to time to compensate for this slowing down.

Earthly matters

As the final countdown, which very correctly observed the leap second, reached its end the crowd spontaneously burst into a few lines of "Auld Lang Syne".

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SILENT movie actor Harold Lloyd demonstrates one way of fixing the leap second.

SUNDAY SESSION

According to a report in Live Science, by international agreement, the world's timekeepers, in order to keep their official atomic clocks in step with the world's irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009.

Wait a second more before saying "Cheers to 2009!"

To stop things getting out of hand, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) adds a leap second to atomic time every few years.

In this battle every second counts

Leap second to be inserted to adjust for earth's rotation TOKYO - A leap second will be inserted into global time scales on Jan.

Kyodo economic news summary -5-

For accuracy, it adds a leap second to the year when necessary, making the last minute of June or December 61 seconds long instead of the usual 60.

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On 31st December 2005 one leap second has been added, and in the recent past several leap seconds have been added (eight seconds from 1989).

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