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Postby Workingman » 30 Dec 2016, 15:54

2016 is the year of the leap-second. One will be added on Dec 31 at 23:59:60, so if you go to bed as normal on NYE you will get more sleep.

Then again you might not if the neighbours are having a hooley, playing Auld Lang Syne, 1999 and Let's Get The Party Started on a loop and letting off fireworks. Image Image Image
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Postby Ally » 30 Dec 2016, 16:09

I saw that on the news a couple of weeks ago WM but it won't cross my mind at the time as I'll be doing the grape, cava and gulp challenge on the stroke of midnight! :lol: :lol:
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Postby Rodo » 30 Dec 2016, 16:25

And I will be down the pub listening to a soul band and drinking cheap gin doubles till they come out of my ears, or out of any other orifice that they reach sooner.
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Postby Rodo » 30 Dec 2016, 16:26

.......and eating hotpot.
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Postby TheOstrich » 30 Dec 2016, 19:59

Apparently leap-seconds are set to become common-place as the earth's rotation slows, and we might be getting two per year.

That hotpot sounds good ...... :mrgreen:
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Re: Did you know?

Postby manxie » 31 Dec 2016, 10:27

the extra seconds sound good to me that means we all get to live longer hehe

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