How will you use your leap second tonight?

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Possible suggestions,

Yawn (can I go to bed before midnight or will the fireworks wake me up).
Sip cup of tea (very quickly).
Smile

:)
 
Miri said:
Possible suggestions,

Yawn (can I go to bed before midnight or will the fireworks wake me up).
Sip cup of tea (very quickly).
Smile

:)
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Haha, VERY quickly!

A quick "Thank you." to the Lord can be done in about 1 second :)
 
Lenardzw said:
I would have preferred that leap second in 2017. We could lose one more celebrity in that 2016 second!
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I don't think 2017 will be any better celebrity wise, we are of an age where people we are aware of will keep on dying
 
Miri, can it be iced tea??

eh, never mind, i still can't drink a whole glass in a second. and i like my other idea better. ;)
 
more than likely we'll have been spooning nite, nites, for hours...
we go to bed mostly with the 'chickens', thank You Lord...:):cool:
 
notmyown said:
Miri, can it be iced tea??

eh, never mind, i still can't drink a whole glass in a second. and i like my other idea better. ;)
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Iced tea is nice.

Psst for the new year I got some detox flavoured teas, dandelion and burdock, raspberry and
nettle.

With all the chocolate I've been eating I definately need to detox. :p
 
Miri said:
Iced tea is nice.

Psst for the new year I got some detox flavoured teas, dandelion and burdock, raspberry and
nettle.

With all the chocolate I've been eating I definately need to detox. :p
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and think how delicious the raspberry will be with chocolate! lol
 
resurrection33 said:
It seems to me we should vote on issues as important as this.
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Apparently they will in 2023.

2016 is getting a ‘leap second’ on New Year’s Eve - National | Globalnews.ca


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
 
Miri said:
Apparently they will in 2023.

2016 is getting a ‘leap second’ on New Year’s Eve - National | Globalnews.ca


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
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how in the world did people keep time before all this technology?

slovenly :mad:

lol
 
breno785au said:
Sleeping....
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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!

notmyown said:
how in the world did people keep time before all this technology?

slovenly :mad:

lol
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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
 
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