# Canada day is getting postponed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616 "2012-06-28T19:13:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/1 "2012-06-28T19:13:28Z")
But just for a second…[ > [@](#): > > PARIS: Horologists around the world are about to carry out one of the weirdest operations of their profession: they will hold back time. > > The last minute of 30 June 2012 is destined to be 61 seconds long, for timekeepers are to add a ‘leap second’ to compensate for the wibbly-wobbly movements of our world. > > The ever-so-brief halting of the second hand will compensate for a creeping divergence from solar time, meaning the period required for Earth to complete a day. ]([http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5739/race-against-time-when-a-minute-lasts-61-seconds](http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5739/race-against-time-when-a-minute-lasts-61-seconds))what will you be doing with all that extra time? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/2 "2012-06-28T19:36:17Z")
Sleeping in. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/3 "2012-06-28T19:48:32Z")
I remember many years ago when something like this happened, Jay Leno joked that Stephen King was planning on using the extra time to crank out another book. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/4 "2012-06-28T23:13:31Z")
Woo more time to get the final details of my mom’s surprise party planned! I think we’re going to need it! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/5 "2012-06-29T04:10:00Z")
Ironically, I’ll be recovering from my trip to Canada. I’m here right now, but will be back in the states Saturday. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/6 "2012-06-29T14:28:19Z")
[del]Courage[/del] Chrono Wolf: Calendar out of sync with solar year? _Make solar year change length._ ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/7 "2012-06-29T14:34:45Z")
All this proves the Mayans were right. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/8 "2012-06-29T14:48:13Z")
Ah, I’ll finally have a summer holiday for once. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-day-is-getting-postponed/626616/9 "2012-06-29T15:33:08Z")
Yeah, but all my clocks are going to be off by one second. I won’t be able to do that _Back To The Future_ clock-matching thing ever again!