This Article is From Jun 30, 2015

Twitter is Excited About #LeapSecond. What About You?

Twitter is Excited About #LeapSecond. What About You?

While leap seconds in previous years have caused some distress, Twitter seems rather excited about the extra second today.

If you've been complaining that the 24 hours in a day are not enough, today is your gift. You may not get an entire hour extra but the usual 86,400 seconds in the day will be increased by one since this year, June 30 has a leap second.

For those who don't understand how this interesting phenomenon works, here's NASA's explanation for it. 

"The Earth's rotation is gradually slowing down a bit, so leap seconds are a way to account for that," Daniel MacMillan, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland told IANS. And hence, an extra second has been added to June 30 this year.

So, while the clock normally moves from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00, today it will go from 23:59:59 to 23:59:60, and then to 00:00:00, which will then be July 1.

While leap seconds in previous years have caused some distress, Twitter seems rather excited about the extra second today.

Here are some reactions to #LeapSecond:
 
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