What Should You Do With Your Extra Second?
We have grown up hearing “time won’t stop for anybody as it never stops” but now it will also stop; however only for a second.
According to reports, Time will stop on June 30 for a second, when Researchers will add a sliver of time—a leap second—to the world's clocks.
Just as leap years keep our calendars lined up with Earth's revolution around the sun, leap seconds adjust for Earth's rotation.
According to experts, Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, so leap seconds are a way to account for that.
Leap seconds were first introduced in 1972, and at that point, atomic clocks and astronomical clocks were already off by ten seconds, so researchers added ten seconds all at once in 1972 to the world's astronomical clocks
The last leap second was added in 2012, but in the early 1980s, time scientists were adding them every year.
Now in 2015, most of us won't notice the addition, which happens at 23:59:59 coordinated universal time (UTC), or 7:59 p.m. ET, unless we deal in timescales shorter than a second, or if we use a computer program that crashes because it can't handle the leap second.
This is the case according to the time standard that people use in their daily lives - Coordinated Universal Time or UTC.
Eventually. And besides, couldn't we all use a little more time? So what would you do with the extra 1 second time?
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Very interesting post Vivian. I have never heard of leap seconds. Thanks…..I ‘m still thinking about what I would do. I like Keanty’s answer!
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I think I will get some sleep. lol
Barry