Twenty-six times since 1972, the world's
timekeepers have added a leap second to the clock to make up
for time lost to Earth's slowing rotation. The adjustment is
necessary because Earth's rotation is not regular. It
sometimes speeds up, sometimes slows down, but is gradually
slowing overall.
It
will happen again tomorrow.
That's right, we get one more second of 2016 added to our
lives. The final minute of 2016 will have 61 seconds. After
all of the political nonsense during these past twelve
months, it is almost like adding insult to injury to have a
leap day and a leap second in the same year. Oh well, savor
the extra second of life. We can never get too many of
them.
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