World clocks may soon skip a second as earth spins faster -

Dennis McCarthy, retired director of time for the US Naval Observatory who wasn’t part of the study, said the trend toward needing a negative leap second is clear, but he thinks it’s more to do with the Earth becoming rounder from geologic shifts from the end of the last ice age

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