BBC News, 9 November 2005, 08:36 GMT [sic] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4420084.stm
"Consideration of a proposal to redefine everyday timekeeping by scrapping leap seconds - small changes made to clock time - has been postponed. A working party weighing the proposed change to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) has decided more time is needed to build a consensus on the issue." ... /tvb