Tuesday, July 3, 2012

A second in time



The so-called leap second was added to electronic clocks at midnight universal time on Saturday, with Atomic clocks reading 23 hours, 59 minutes and 60 seconds before then moving on to Greenwich Mean Time.....whatever all that means?

It seems that the Earth is slowing down from the effect of the tidal pull of the moon and so, periodically, timekeepers have to adjust the official Atomic clocks. Follow that?? No questions please.

There were some unexpected glitches soon after the adjustments were made...websites went down....QANTAS systems shut down etc etc.

The Millennium Bug, was supposed to create havoc with computers worldwide, but in fact nothing significant happened. In the midst of the scare, quite a few businesses were established offering fixes for the impending doom of January 1, 2000.

1 comment:

Bernie said...

wow what will we do with the extra time? I am having a difficult reading the verification words Kev, anyone else having this problem? Hope you are all well, big hugs....:-)