Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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The Benefits of Earth Rotation Time
In the 1970s, a perfect compromise was enacted on the world and it was called the leap second system. Now if I google time.com, that connects me to an atomic clock, right? Everything on Earth now, all of the systems that require clock time - cell phones work, computers work -- are using time from atomic clocks.
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