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The addition of a leap second is is required because the Earth’s rotation is far from
clockwork — it can speed up or slow down due to various factors including the moon’s
gravitational pull. This results in astronomical time — based on the length of a day — falling
out of sync with atomic time, a more precise measure determined by 400 high-tech atomic
clocks located in over 50 laboratories around the world. This isn’t the first time a leap second has been added at the end of the year to prevent our
timekeeping from going haywire. Twenty-six leap seconds have been inserted into the world’s
clocks to date, with the first introduced on June 30, 1972, according to the IERS.
The computing complications caused by leap seconds has led some people to call for their
abolishment altogether. The International Telecommunication Union is slated to make a
decision on the matter at a conference in 2023, according to a November 2015 statement
The addition of a leap second is is required because the Earth’s rotation is far from
clockwork — it can speed up or slow down due to various factors including the moon’s
gravitational pull. This results in astronomical time — based on the length of a day — falling
out of sync with atomic time, a more precise measure determined by 400 high-tech atomic
clocks located in over 50 laboratories around the world. This isn’t the first time a leap second has been added at the end of the year to prevent our
timekeeping from going haywire. Twenty-six leap seconds have been inserted into the world’s
clocks to date, with the first introduced on June 30, 1972, according to the IERS.
The computing complications caused by leap seconds has led some people to call for their
abolishment altogether. The International Telecommunication Union is slated to make a
decision on the matter at a conference in 2023, according to a November 2015 statement
I was so close of making it to midnight, was watching TV with my date for the evening (my heating pad) and fell asleep and two hours into the new year I am now waking up haha!
Not only that, but how did we survive without technology period? Without our phones or Internet? It's sad I tell you, sad!
The Wednesday before Christmas I went in to work excited that we were going to an office party at the Olive Garden, but as soon as I went and sat down we were notified that we didn't have Internet which meant we couldn't do our jobs and the showroom didn't have electricity and heat. I Was talking to one of the finance guys and we were talking about how we rely so much on technology that when we can't use it for a period of time we can't function...he agreed it was very sad. I personally love the thought of losing power because out comes board games. There is nothing like a good game of monopoly lol