What will you do with your extra second????

[Nicos]

Use it wisely peeps!!

'Leap second' added for first time in three years - BBC News

personally I shall mostly be sleeping my way through it!

Having said that, it'll be interesting to see what happens to electrical 'stuff' !


Not much bothered by it???...well, have a look at this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

[JanieB]

We had all that doom and gloom about techie stuff and the millennium. It didn't happen. And we've gone through other leap seconds since then. It's just the media looking for news which with the terrorist atrocities going on they don't need to. On the other hand they might be trying to divert our minds from the horror.

[JanieB]

Oh. I will sleep through it.

[Thelma Sanders]

I hope it just means that I'll take an extra breath

[veggiechicken]

Here's one version of it -

Today, Big Ben’s hands will briefly pause at midnight as the whole globe gains an extra second, known as a leap second.

While the majority of us will be fast asleep, we shouldn’t underestimate the events that will be happening around the world.

When the clocks read 11:59:60, this is what will happen in just one second…

4.3 babies are born
…2 of whom are born into poverty
1.8 people die
2,406,791 emails are sent
49,483 searches are made on Google
54,806 Facebook likes are made
9,515 Tweets are sent
419 KitKat fingers are consumed
60 lipsticks are produced
1,388 people have sex
100 lightning strikes hit the ground
3,160 tons of water flow over the Niagara Falls
Oprah Winfrey earns £6.63 (more than the UK's hourly national minimum wage)
…while Bill Gates earns £159.



I guess I'll be on the Vine for that extra second................or asleep

[Scarlet]

Well, I know what I'll be doing ...........sleeping

[Bren In Pots]

Well, I know what I'll be doing ...........sleeping

Me too.

[Lumpy]

ermmmm - bugger that's the second gone then.

[Bonsai Si]

When the clocks read 11:59:60, this is what will happen in just one second…
1,388 people have sex

Fastest leg over in history?

[Lumpy]

But does that mean that dawn will be later than expected? Has anybody told Planck's Constant about this and whether this universal certainty (or not depending) will have to adapt itself to our idea of time?

[veggiechicken]

Have you had too much sun today, Lumpy?

[Bonsai Si]

Couple of passes into the shed with a few head bangs too I'd say! lol

[Bal]

It means I will have an extra second with my horse who came home today��

[Nicos]

As it's 3 mins away for me, it looks like I'll be spending my extra 1 second scrubbing my teeth!

[veggiechicken]

Oh dear - its been and gone and I didn't notice