Beat the Clock

Portland Phoenix | February 28, 2008
"The Earth is a terrible timekeeper," says Geoff Chester, the spokesman for this country's official clock-master, the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. That is only part of why we have Leap Days and Leap Years, and also Leap Seconds, Leap Weeks, and Leap Months.

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