Leap second in Japan

Leap second in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People gather to see a clock showing the time 8:59:60 at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Koganei, western Tokyo, on July 1, 2012. The governmental body in charge of Japan's standard time added the leap second as part of a universal adjustment of atomic clocks to align with the rotation of the Earth.

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