{"id":4606,"date":"2010-01-22T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2010-01-22T03:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T08:00:56","slug":"categorically-deny-it-that-should-satisfy-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4606","title":{"rendered":"Categorically Deny It.  That Should Convince Everybody."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redicecreations.com\/article.php?id=9475\">government conspiracy that involves some of my colleagues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The time of the winter solstice on 12\/21\/2012 has been changed from 11:11 to 11:12.  Something sinister is obviously afoot.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given that the Naval Observatory is probably the most precise observatory in the world I find this highly unusual. A minutes change is huge! What&#8217;s going on here?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best guess?  It&#8217;s a precision issue.  The time is specified to the minute, which means you have to decide to round or not.  If the calculated time was 11:11:29 and changed  to 11:11:30 \u2014 a mere second longer \u2014 in a recalculation (which might happen depending on, say, how many leap seconds had been added since you did the previous calculation, or other factors), you would display it as 11:12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh, a government conspiracy that involves some of my colleagues. The time of the winter solstice on 12\/21\/2012 has been changed from 11:11 to 11:12. Something sinister is obviously afoot. Given that the Naval Observatory is probably the most precise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4606\">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":[3,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-physics","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","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=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}