Are you getting the feeling that the year is never going to end? Well the economy is not the only thing slowing down, the earth is also slowing down. This has created a requirement for timekeepers to add an extra second to their atomic clocks in order to compensate for the earth's rotation slowing down.
An International consortium made the decision to add an extra second to the atomic clocks. An extra second will be added on December 31st after 18:59:59 and before 19:00 EST. The leap year is already longer and by adding this second it will make it the longest year since 1992.
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