[Newsbot]

Title: Leap seconds: Why our clocks are being set ever-so-slightly ahead
Category: Tech
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2015-06-28 03:01:43
Canadian

[shockedcanadian]

Neat

[DrCaleb]

$1:

Just before midnight Greenwich mean time on June 30, official timekeeping bodies around the world will add a single second — the so-called leap second — to the clock.

$1:

Corrections

A previous version of this story said clocks would be moved ahead by one second on June 30. In fact, they will actually be set back.
Jun 28, 2015 1:57 PM

And that is why Reporters are bad at Science.

When you add to something, do you gain or lose something?

Oh, and:

current-events-f59/leap-second-clocks-in-on-june-30-t112934.html

[BartSimpson]

I'm sad that 2100 won't be a leap year.