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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford

On Tuesday you will all have an extra second to play with, be it asleep in bed or an extra second of shagging...

The clocks will go....

00:59:59

00:59:60 ---- that's the extra one.

01:00:00

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

why is there an extra second? m x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On a practical note, how do I inform my clocks of this important information?

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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford


"why is there an extra second? m x"

To keep civil time in line with the sun’s movements, we occasionally add a leap second to the time measured by atomic clocks. We do this roughly every two years. This gives us the time scale that is currently used for most everyday purposes around the world. It is often called ‘Coordinated Universal Time’, or UTC.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well, i'll have to work for an extra second. Great. And i bet i don't get overtime for it either.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"why is there an extra second? m x

To keep civil time in line with the sun’s movements, we occasionally add a leap second to the time measured by atomic clocks. We do this roughly every two years. This gives us the time scale that is currently used for most everyday purposes around the world. It is often called ‘Coordinated Universal Time’, or UTC."

what are atomic clocks?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I find this sort of thing far more exciting than I should.

It's got my inner geek all tingly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's a 1 hour jump the way I read it should it not read 00:00:01

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"why is there an extra second? m x

To keep civil time in line with the sun’s movements, we occasionally add a leap second to the time measured by atomic clocks. We do this roughly every two years. This gives us the time scale that is currently used for most everyday purposes around the world. It is often called ‘Coordinated Universal Time’, or UTC.

what are atomic clocks? "

Really accurate. That's all I know.

I've just looked up the definition:

an extremely accurate type of clock which is regulated by the vibrations of an atomic or molecular system such as caesium or ammonia.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"That's a 1 hour jump the way I read it should it not read 00:00:01"

Too much sun today perhaps

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By *ilandlarryCouple
over a year ago

more north lincs than mids!


"That's a 1 hour jump the way I read it should it not read 00:00:01"

No you are going from 00:59 (12.59am) to 01.00 (1am)

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Use this second wisely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

More interestingly IAT is coordinated by several atomic clocks around the world!.. Why because time is not the same at any given point?

Your clock may say 00.59.59 because your in a ground floor flat... But mine at a slightly higher height on the third floor will read 1 already because thanks to Eisenstein we know time doesn't flow evenly.

Julia's Cesar couldn't grasp time and neither did pope Gregory?

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By *hyllyphylly OP   Man
over a year ago

Bradford

There is talk about scraping this, but experts say we could slip up to three minutes ahead of time by 2100, and about half an hour by 2700.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There is talk about scraping this, but experts say we could slip up to three minutes ahead of time by 2100, and about half an hour by 2700."
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I think I read in popular mechanics last year that there was an American outfit with a clock accurate to 1 second per 5 billion years.... Or to put it another way, the entire lifetime of earth

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone

I enjoyed it, i got an extra snore in

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By *ilandlarryCouple
over a year ago

more north lincs than mids!


"I enjoyed it, i got an extra snore in"

It's not until Tuesday

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