According to the International Service for Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS), and it is not a joke, this is what the institution is called, An extra second will have to be added to December 31, 2016 to be able to adjust the time slot completely correctly. We are going to talk a little about this extra second that we will have to add to our year 2016 if we want everything to continue to flow well in terms of time, in the meantime, we will cross our fingers so that no great music legend dies for it way, and the year 2016 is being especially black for them.
This second extra, as they tell us in Gizmodo, is known as «leap second»And is a method used to compensate for changes in the Earth's rotation that alter the clock. As they tell us, 200 years ago, a solar day lasted 86.400 seconds; nowadays it lasts about 86.400,002 seconds, and it seems that the speed of the Earth's rotation is diminishing in a negligible but perceptible way (two seconds every two hundred years is not bad at all). The clocks should then add the difference to keep working properly.
Sometimes, like this year 2016, it is necessary to add or subtract a second, something that has been done since 1972 and which for now ensures the correct functioning of our time system. Normally, this second more or less is added between the months of June or DecemberThis time it has been added to December 31st, watch out friends, you will have one more second to eat the grapes. A second can cause extremely serious computer errors, that is why there are specialists pending of this type of imperceptible variations. In short, 2016 is leaving and we hope that in 2017 you will continue to trust us.