Leap Second Saturday 06/29/2012 - Be Prepared!

[MikeFleming]

The next leap second will be this Saturday, June 30, at 5pm MST / 8pm CLT, as the final minute of June in Greenwich will have 61 seconds. NASA explains why (roughly):

http://phys.org/news/2012-06-nasa-clocks-extra-june.html

A recently published novel speculates on more dramatic changes:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/06/26/age_of_miracles_by_karen_thompson_walker_could_the_earth_s_r otation_really_slow_down_.html

http://www.amazon.com/The-Age-Miracles-A-Novel/dp/0812992970

Apparently baseball will be thwarted by changing gravity - and I thought the infield fly rule was hard to understand!

Enjoy your leap seconds while you have them!

[18lbs]

Damn, I've got to be at work an extra second.

[MikeFleming]

You should complain to the boss - make sure you get paid for that second too!

I wonder if leap seconds are written into union overtime contracts? Any union people here?

[Patrick]

That was 9 days ago. Maybe we can pro-rate it in with union break every 2 hours over till the next contract agreement.

[Laredo]

I'm going to make sure I time my extra second during my autocross run today....that's like a getting a 1 sec head start. :cool:

[MikeFleming]

^
SMART man!!

[MikeFleming]

My bad - I mis-typed the date. The leap second change was yesterday, 06/29/2012.

And these notes came up today:

The usual internet hyperbole is in play, "Y2K 2.0: How a second brought down half the internets":

http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/y2k-20-how-a-second-brought-down-half-the-intern

(If so, it must be the half I don't use.) Any such issues might also be confused with problems caused by the massive power outages in the eastern USA.

Don't forget to bill for that extra second if you were working.

Carry on.