# How are you gonna spend your Leap Second? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917 "2016-12-30T19:39:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/1 "2016-12-30T19:39:41Z")
This New Year’s Eve, we’re getting [an extra second](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/29/507422729/with-a-leap-second-2016-promises-to-linger-just-a-little-bit-longer) of revelry before the ball finishes dropping. How will you spend your free second of 2016? Me, I plan to get down on my knees (assuming I can get back up) and thank the Powers That Be that the extra second will be added to the Obama Administration. The next four years will be long enough, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/2 "2016-12-30T20:35:19Z")
Blink, probably. ---
**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:** [December 31, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/3 "2016-12-31T00:45:08Z")
I think I’ll be breathing. As usual. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/4 "2016-12-31T01:43:48Z")
Quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/5 "2016-12-31T01:53:34Z")
Wishing this year couldn’t go on one second longer. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/6 "2016-12-31T02:22:41Z")
Very short nap. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/7 "2016-12-31T02:24:25Z")
Surely most Dopers will be busy during this second and a few seconds after resetting their clocks and watches to take the time change into account–unless they are already synchronized with a time server? [Not me–my clocks aren’t set accurately anyway and I don’t use watches.] ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/8 "2016-12-31T02:44:48Z")
I am not going to spend my leap second, I am going to save it. It might come in handy later on. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/9 "2016-12-31T04:50:44Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I think I’ll be breathing. As usual. 🙂 Inhale or exhale? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-you-gonna-spend-your-leap-second/775917/10 "2016-12-31T05:31:56Z")
A trip to Venezuela. I’ll pack light.