PARIS: Scientists and government representatives meeting at a conference in France voted on Friday to scrap leap seconds by 2035, the organization responsible for global timekeeping said.

Similar to leap years, leap seconds have been periodically added to clocks over the last half-century to make up for the difference between exact atomic time and the Earth's slower rotation.

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