Leap seconds: Why our clocks are being set ever-so-slightly ahead

Tech | 207310 hits | Jun 28 3:01 am | Posted by: Hyack

Just before midnight Co-ordinated Universal Time on June 30, official timekeeping bodies around the world will add a single second to the clock. There's a good reason for that.

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by shockedcanadian
Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:18 pm
Neat
by DrCaleb
Mon Jun 29, 2015 3:04 pm
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.

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
by BartSimpson
Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:52 pm
I'm sad that 2100 won't be a leap year.

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