Yesterday's 61-Second Minute Crashes Your Favorite Websites
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406583,00.asp
July 1, 2012
and :
Session 6 July 2010
Session July 22 2012
To be thorough, the clock have been adjusted 35 times since 1972. To be in phase with previous earth slowing?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406583,00.asp
July 1, 2012
It didn't seem like such a bad idea at first. To correct for minor decelerations in Earth's rotation, timekeepers added an extra second to the clock yesterday – bringing Earth roughly four-tenths of a second ahead of the official time instead of six-tenths of a second behind.
However, the inclusion of that second – added during the minute prior to 0 hours GMT yesterday (4:59 p.m. PT or 7:59 p.m. ET) – was not as well-received by systems used to a conventional 60-second minute. And, go figure, one tiny little second managed to bring down a number of the Web's more well-known sites as soon as the clock hit "61" instead of "60" yesterday.
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Session 6 July 2010
Q: (L) So, you mean that what we've speculated about sinkholes and cracks in the earth... What is causing this opening up?
A: Misalignment, or rather sliding of layers of crust of earth due to slowing of rotation.
Session July 22 2012
Q: (L) What about these sinkholes? I mean, sinkholes everywhere! This is getting to be really bizarre. I have never heard of so many sinkholes in my entire life happening all over the planet. I mean, sinkholes are kind of common in Florida, but... What the heck is going on?
A: We mentioned an infinitesimal slowing of the planet's rotation causing everything to "open up"?!
Q: (L) Yes, you did.
To be thorough, the clock have been adjusted 35 times since 1972. To be in phase with previous earth slowing?