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SenseNotSoCommon
You don't say!
Wc626
I'm no NASA, rocket-scientists expert.
. . . . But anyone could've predicted that-
TexPomeroy
"Hiya Doc! Can you explain what a leap second is?" "Just a moment..." - another "cold joke"?
JonathanJo
It's not compensation for the earth going round the sun more slowly, but the earth's daily rotation about its own polar axis being slowed by the moon robbing the earth's angular momentum by receding
lostrune2
Great, now we get an extra second... #LeapSecond http://pic.twitter.com/pEEjLTYsdF
— Washington Wizards (@WashWizards) June 30, 2015
nath
So that's why June 30th seemed to drag on. Sure felt like a long day to me! Now I know why!