Saturday, June 30, 2012

Scientists to hold back time for one second on June 30

LONDON: The last minute of June 30, 2012, is destined to be 61 seconds long, as timekeepers will add a “leap second” to compensate for the wibbly-wobbly movements of our world. The ever-so-brief halting of the second hand will compensate for a creeping divergence from solar time, meaning the period required for Earth to complete a day.

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