![]() ![]() “The modeling of the Earth predicts that more and more leap seconds will be called for in the long-term, but we can’t say that one will be needed every year. Patriot Day (USA) - Anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Great Britain/United Kingdom is one hour ahead of UTC during summer. Please note: Most locations in the Eastern Time zone are currently observing EDT, not EST. UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time. ![]() “In the short term, leap seconds are not as predictable as everyone would like,” he said. UTC (GMT/Zulu)-time: Monday, Septemat 15:26:28. Leap seconds are challenging for computer systems, NASA acknowledges, because scientists can’t predict down to the nanosecond, so to speak, when they’ll be needed.Ĭhopo Ma, a geophysicist at Goddard and a member of the directing board of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, thinks getting rid of them is a bad idea. In 2012, the last time the world clock was adjusted, the extra second ate the Internet for a while, crashing high-user websites like Reddit, Gawker and Mozilla, leading some to call for abolition of the leap second. I felt pretty good after gassing out a fellow white belt who. the member for Egmont, the House in 1943, and now I am about to member for. A decision on a proposal to abolish the leap second could be decided in late 2015, at the earliest, by the International Telecommunication Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations that addresses issues in information and communication technologies. Professor gave me three minutes on the clock today. month and to those who will be called Hon. ![]()
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