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Power cut crashes Delta's worldwide flight update systems

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Re: @choleric

Actually, atmospheric temperatures affect the earth's rotation rate: the warmer the atmosphere, the fewer leap seconds needed. And since the year 2000 there have been many fewer leap seconds than predicted in the 90s; the graph shows a dramatic corner. Nobody is sure why.

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