Wondering what to do with that extra second? Try this out.
Randomized results.
YES! Extra time to sleep! Oh, thank you, constantly-winding-down cosmos, thank you!
I need the extra sleep time, too. Yay!!
Convince all of the Chinese to jump during the leap second to see if the seismic impact caused by their landing cancels out the leap second.
No, no, no–according to The Master (paraphrasing), All the Chinese jumping at once will ADD a second to the tally, which will be cancelled by their impact; net result, zip. But you’re half right, Smapti.
I’m gonna spend it having sex! Twice!
It’s Canada Day tomorrow. I’m going to use my extra second wisely by having an extra sip of beer before bed tonight.
Oh, I feel so much older.
I felt the Leap Second today.
Suddenly everything got blurry.
Then I had lunch and all was okay with the Universe.
An old Jay Leno joke - “Stephen King can crank out another novel”
Actually, your next birthday is arriving one second later. You should feel younger.
Well, crap. I missed the whole dang thing! Story of my life. :mad: Okay, when’s the next one, so I can be ready for it.
I think you’re right. Then when my birthday has passed, I’ll feel a second older. Or something. Temporal paradoxes are fun!
(Oh, my brain hurts)
Apparently, they are added irregularly on an ad-hoc basis, whenever the Sacred Astrologers figure we need one, and future leap-seconds are not announced until “they” decide it’s time.
Intuitively, to my mind, this calls the whole concept of leap second into question. They can run astrology sims to pinpoint the conjunction of planets 2000+ years ago (hypothesized origin of the story of the Magi following the Star), but time is too irregular to predict future leap-seconds? Strange.
The Space-Time Continuum must not be very deterministic.
This page has a table of past leap-seconds but notes that the next one has not been announced; on the contrary, they are debating the proposal to eliminate them.
I spent mine rethinking all the great things (insert the name of your least favorite politician here) did. And I still had time left over. 