Enjoy New Year’s Eve a Second Longer

from the National Institute of Standards and Technology:

You can toot your New Year’s horn an extra second this year, say physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Along with the rest of the world’s atomic timekeepers, NIST’s time and frequency experts will insert a second (known as a leap second) into their time scale on Dec. 31 for the first time in seven years.

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