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Stop the clock

StoneHappyMonday

StoneHappyMonday

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Leap second to pause clocks at midnight as entire planet gains a second

Time and tide wait for no man, the saying goes. But at midnight on Tuesday clocks will pause momentarily as the entire planet gains a bonus second.

If you happen to be awake, and gazing at the dial on an atomic clock, it will read 23:59:60 before ticking forward to 00.00.00.

The addition of a “leap second” is designed to allow the Earth’s rotation, which is gradually slowing, to catch up with atomic clocks, keeping official time neatly in sync with night and day.
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Last time a leap second was added, on a weekend 2012, Mozilla, Reddit and LinkedIn all crashed. In Australia, more than 400 flights were grounded as the Qantas check-in system went down, requiring the job to be done manually.
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Actually having flown with Qantas a few times I can quite confidently say their check-in system going down probably had sweet FA to do with any atomic clocks. They are Australia's best joke. Which is probably why British Airways bought a stake in them.
 
This unsettles me yet I don't know why. Time stuff always unsettles me.
 
More evidence against creationism. Why wouldn't a creator make everything consistent and measurable in round figures? Even the number of days (revolutions of the Earth around its axis) in a year (revolution of the Earth around the Sun) isn't an integer .....
 
Aye, but my damn female hormones aren't either - and they appear to be "clocked" about with that bloody lunar malarkey :|
 
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