{"id":1102,"date":"2008-12-10T04:48:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T09:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2008-12-10T04:48:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T09:48:50","slug":"wait-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1102","title":{"rendered":"Wait a Moment \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081209\/ap_on_sc\/sci_extra_second_2\">Wait a second: 2008 gets extended by timekeepers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/539\">already announced this<\/a>, but noticed this blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the Naval Observatory they have a party at 6:59:60 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We watch the clock and make sure nothing breaks,&#8221; Chester said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an early New Year&#8217;s celebration.&#8221; A brief one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.  There&#8217;s a party that lasts all of one second.<\/p>\n<p>(The 6:59:60 p.m. is because the leap second is added at midnight UTC, so all timekeepers add it at the same time.  <del datetime=\"00\">Unless you&#8217;re in<\/del> If you&#8217;re west of Greenwich&#8217;s time zone, the leap second is already in the mix when you do your countdown and shout, &#8220;Happy New Year!&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait a second: 2008 gets extended by timekeepers I already announced this, but noticed this blurb: At the Naval Observatory they have a party at 6:59:60 p.m. &#8220;We watch the clock and make sure nothing breaks,&#8221; Chester said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time","tag-leap-second"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}