BOULDER - You probably didn't notice, but at 5:00 p.m. in Colorado on New Year's Eve, an extra second was added to 2016. In fact, a second has been added to the clock 36 other times since 1972. “Every couple years, we insert a leap second,” explained ...

The Earth's gradually slowing rotation can sometimes fiddle with our clocks, reportedly creating a need for an extra second to be added to keep things synchronized across the globe. In New York, at 6:59:60 p.m., a so-called "leap second" will be added ...

Chinese owners of a clock bushiness wait for customers at their stall at a trade fair in Beijing on May 27, 2014. A "leap second" will be added to clocks around the world before midnight Coordinated Universal Time on Dec. 31, 2016 to account for Earth ...

The world's timekeepers will add one second to the Coordinated Universal Time to sync atomic clocks with Astronomical Time. Year 2016 is one such year where one second - the "leap second" - will be added to the clocks on Dec. 31 at 23 hours, 59 minutes ...

As if 2016 has not been long enough, the year's dying minute will last an extra second to make up for time lost to Earth's slowing rotation, timekeepers say. Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time -- several West African nations, Britain ...

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) Just when you thought 2016 couldn't get any longer...it can. By one second. A leap second will be added to the end of 2016! At 11:59:59 on December 31st, one second will be added to the last hour of 2016. It's called a leap second and ...

Here's a timely reminder for all you would-be revelers out there: Be careful with your countdowns this New Year's Eve. There will be a little extra time to bask in the glow of a retreating 2016 — or curse its name, as the case may be. Whatever your ...

At the stroke of midnight, Coordinated Universal Time will add a leap second to keep the world's rotational time and atomic clock time in sync. BY TIA GHOSE, LIVE SCIENCE. NASA. For one tiny heartbeat at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, a ...

People hoping for a speedy end to 2016 are going to have to wait a second – literally. Clocks worldwide will pause for a "leap second" on Saturday. At 11:59 p.m. and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (6:59 p.m. EST), international timekeepers will ...

Landmark Signs and Electric technicians install tiles in the Times Square New Year's Eve Waterford Crystal Ball panel on Tuesday in New York. (Dennis Van Tine/Abaca Press/TNS). The year 2017 isn't coming as soon as you think. In fact, it will be ...

While most Americans are used to setting their clocks at the beginning and end of Daylight Saving Time, it turns out New Year's Eve also requires a time change - albeit a minor one. As the clock strikes midnight in England, an extra second will be ...

WASHINGTON: To maintain accuracy, NASA said its missions, including the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which continuously watches the sun, will join official clocks around the world in adding a leap second to the final minute of 2016. On December ...

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To the time-poor of the world: take heart, for 2016 is a generous year. Not only were you granted a leap day on 29 February, you will soon score a New Year's Eve countdown bonus, a leap second, to hold off 2017 for a final sip or regret. Whereas leap ...

For people who can't wait for this year to end, here is the science behind the Earth's leap second. By The Conversation | Contributor Dec. 30, 2016, at 12:29 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Wait a Moment, 2016 Will Be a Second ...

This New Year's Eve countdown will be longer than normal - but just by a second. An extra second, or leap second, is being added on December 31 in order to keep the timescale based on atomic clocks in sync with time based on the Earth's rotation.

If, like me, you're counting the seconds until you can kick 2016 out the door, I have a tiny bit of bad news: You'll have to count a little higher to do so. According to our clocks, 2016 will be exactly one second longer this year because scientists ...

A 'leap second' is being added this New Year. Clocks will read 11:59:60 before flipping over to 00:00:00 to indicate the new year. Why 2016 will be one second longer than a standard year. X. Share Tweet Share Pin It Email. Copy link to paste in your ...

To be precise, it will last an extra second as clock experts compensate for a slowdown in the Earth's rotation. In a move guaranteed to make the cogs in some heads turn, time lords at the National Physical Laboratory are introducing a 'leap second ...

A "leap second" will be added to this year's New Year's countdown to compensate for a slowdown in the Earth's rotation. The extra second will occur as clocks strike midnight and a time of 23:59:60 will be recorded, delaying 2017 momentarily. It will ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - It's a much finer adjustment to the calendar than the extra day in a Leap Year. And yet in their own way, "leap seconds" are much more trouble. The Earth's rotation is slowing, infinitesimally and unpredictably, due to a number of ...

Counting down to 2017 will take longer than usual this New Year's Eve as clock experts compensate for a slowdown in the Earth's rotation. To be precise, it will last an extra second. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. In a ...

Many of us can't wait for 2016 to be over, but we're going to have to endure an entire extra second of this rubbish year. Huge police presence amid fears of a New Year's Eve terror attack in the UK. Timekeepers are introducing a 'leap second', which ...

A leap second will be added on New Year's Eve, which will make 2016 longer. Why is it necessary to add another second to the world's clocks this year? ( Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images ). Advertisement. 2016 will be a bit longer because a leap second ...

The last day of 2016 will be the longest day of the year with a 'leap second' being added before the clock strikes midnight. The extra second will be added to the world's clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC ...