Leap Year? How about a leap second? Extra sec to live this year
Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first “leap second” in seven years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth’s rotation.
The adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight Coordinated Universal Time, the widely adopted international standard, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology said this week.
source: Yahoo
I’m sure all of us know we have leap year every 4 years. How about a leap second?
It occurs every 7 years. So, everyone has one extra sec to live. What would you do for this one extra sec? ![]()
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