World clocks may soon skip a second as earth spins faster - Here's all to know

Although the change will merely be of a second, the earths changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way...

Here is why for the first time in history, timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years...

We are headed toward a negative leap second," said Dennis McCarthy, retired director of time for the US Naval Observatory who wasnt part of the study..

For thousands of years, the Earth has been generally slowing down, with the rate varying from time to time, said Agnew and Judah Levine, a physicist for the time and frequency division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology..

But Russias satellite system relies on astronomical time, so eliminating leap seconds would cause them problems, Agnew and McCarthy said..