Those Troubling “Leap Seconds”

Posted on Saturday 30 July 2005

The US, having evidently solved all the other problems addressing the international community, now focuses its efforts on ridding the world of leap seconds (since a day isn’t technically exactly 24 hours) by adding a “leap hour” every 500-600 years.


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