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Leap second: What does it mean? BBC News
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June 30, 2015
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1:51Now PlayingMidnight will come later tonight, as for the first time in three years, an extra second is added to the official time set by atomic clocks. The "leap second" means the last minute of June will have 61 seconds in it.
It last happened in 2012, and caused temporary problems for some websites.
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