U.S. News & World Report
2016 Will Be Longer Than Usual, Thanks to a Leap Second
How many 2016’s do we have to compare the length with?
U.S. News & World Report
2016 Will Be Longer Than Usual, Thanks to a Leap Second
How many 2016’s do we have to compare the length with?
Parallel universes, matey.
Yup, all those ‘possible worlds’ of modal logicians and the multiverse of some physicists. Do keep up
Damn.
I read it as meaning this year will be longer than most years. Do keep up, BiT!
Its bollocks anyway, leap seconds are added fairly regularly:
If 26 have been added in 43 years it looks more like leap seconds are the norm.
I think I’ll take a leap piss.
If we counted 45 minutes as an hour, we could get 32 hours in the day. Allow your standard 8 hours sleep and you get 24 hours to work. Think of the productivity potential!
Also, it would not take long before we made up the 11 days lost when we went on to the Gregorian calendar.
It’s of very dubious importance anyway: Unix and Unix-like operating systems running a quasi-modern implementation of NTP will have the leap second announced to the kernel, which will handle it transparently. In some kernels, it just puts a thumb on the PLL so the second is silently inserted and the wall clock time goes from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00 as per normal.
No idea how Windows handles it. If it shits the bed occasionally I wouldn’t be surprised.