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            <title><![CDATA[Leap seconds set to be scrapped after causing problems for computer systems]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Earth’s irregular rotation creates problems for timekeeping. But now experts are giving up on adjusting the time to match the length of the day. The complicated leap-second system is expected to be scrapped today. People are worried about a kind of millennium bug, says Jan Johansson, who is responsible for national measurement operations at the state research institute RISE.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:46:21 GMT</pubDate>
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