Tag: leap second

Trivial Posts #6: Boston’s Budget, Chocolate And Creme, Leap Seconds To Disaster

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A busy week for me with CES going on and lots of news to stay on top of, but that does’ mean there’s no time for some fun posts! Once more, here’s the weekly collection of interesting posts, ideas, video clips, essays, images, and anything else that catches my eye online Don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list so you never miss anything trivial! Faster, Better, Stronger, More Expensive… Boston is rather upset that it’s getting to bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. The small committees, politicians, and planners are going ‘this would be a good thing, we can build new public transport links’,

We’re getting another second!

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Yes, the world’s clocks will go from 59 seconds, to 60, to zero, between June 30th and July 1st this year, reports the ‘Service International De La Rotation Terrestre Et Des Systems De Reference‘. The official time pattern will read: 2015 June 30, 23h 59m 59s 2015 June 30, 23h 59m 60s 2015 July 1, 0h 0m 0s But what to do with another second? Well, last time this happened in 2012 I had a few ideas, now you;ve got a chance to do your second favourite from my list of nine things to do with your extra second.