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Author Topic: Clocks go back one second tonight  (Read 2661 times)

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Clocks go back one second tonight
« on: June 30, 2015, 10:55:18 AM »
Tonight the minute starting at 23:59 GMT will have 61 seconds. This is a leap second to adjust for the disparity between the earth's rotation (slowing down) and atomic clocks.
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2015, 02:49:30 PM »
I'll try to enjoy the lie-in! ;D
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2015, 03:36:59 PM »
I'm sure DSLstats will be able to cope.  ;)
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2015, 03:51:57 PM »
It will put its feet up for that one second.
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2015, 07:01:17 PM »
and it's a small repayment of wht was lost in 1752.
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2015, 07:02:22 PM »
:o
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2015, 07:50:55 PM »
I'm sure I can find lots of things to do in that extra second :D
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2015, 01:02:30 AM »
Quote from: kitz on June 30, 2015, 07:50:55 PM
I'm sure I can find lots of things to do in that extra second :D
Too much information, I think.
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2015, 09:24:57 AM »
Will we gain an extra second of life by last night's event? :-\
In a way, even taken as a joke, we could be just like those folk in 1752 who claimed that eleven days of their lives had been stolen from them. ;D TBH as it was done by HMG of the tile they may have had some justification. ::) ;D
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2015, 11:15:45 AM »
As far as the clocks are concerned, you will have lost one second of your life, because last night the start of a new minute on the clocks was delayed by one second. We were all in limbo for that second. I don't propose to lose any sleep over it. ::)
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2015, 11:54:43 AM »
... and there's me trying to be deeply philosophical! ;) Seems I'm not better at that than with technology.:(
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Re: Clocks go back one second tonight
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2015, 12:31:43 PM »
On the other hand, I wonder how many 'hours' was spent by people all over the world either debating the benefits of a one second gain or just the likes of our selves who have 'wasted' the last few hours?
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