Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second

Video written by Ben Doyle

[adrielsebastian]

Fun fact: the acronym for the universal coordinated time (UTC) is a compromise between the English coordinated universal time (CUT) and the French temps universel coordonné (TUC).

[AnyWayICan]

Here I am feeling old already and now I find out I’m one second older than I thought. How depressing.

[Cacttux]

This is half as interesting as a two second longer year…

[lemo]

This is outrageous! Who’s gonna look out for the prisoners who just got an extra second tacked onto their sentences?? That second makes a difference in the 20 years of jail time come on

[note]

"Felt really long"
The really long: 1 seconds

[zeroone]

By being at the end of the year UTC, most of the world's population actually experienced it in 2017.

[NozomuYume]

The 2012 leap second glitch was caused by a bug in the linux kernel's timers not taking kindly to the automatic update of the second. I remember having to deal with it personally when all of our servers started to seize up. It sucked, but at least we could fix it ourselves. If you used a cloud provider you were at the mercy of when they decided to reboot your host. (You could actually temporarily fix it by manually resetting the time, which was good enough until you could install a patched kernel)

[pisoplays]

Everyone at New Years: 3, 2, 1
The dude with the clock: hold up wait a minute

[justingolden]

"because we've done literally nothing expect read weird wikipedia articles for the past four years"
accurate channel description tbh

[gfx]

That thumbnail picture of the Mondaine (modified to "Mundaine" LOL!) is what caught my eye. The modified abbreviations for the Swiss Railway company is also hilarious! I have that exact watch.

[dajoosch]

I'm a simple man. I see a video by Half as Interesting, I'm happy.

[leparkorcraft]

This sam guy really sounds like sam from extremities.

[LeeorEngelstein]

Fun fact: for religious functions Jews use apparent solar time so some hours are longer or shorter which mostly effects prayer times

[RedoStone]

"Why 2016 was 1 second longer than normal"
Wasn't it 86401 seconds longer because it was a leap year?

[Samuel_Clay]

I love the shorter times now makes the videos more to the point, great job

[raptorfromtheix]

2016 was such a good year that god decided to bless us another second

[TheBBCSlurpee]

i surpassed the leader thanks to this phenomenon

[laweenerafiqahmed]

“Hal…Hal, don’t worry… if it’s you it’s going to be fine”

[Paulkjoss]

Thanks for putting in the time when the extra Nebula content actually begins…

[DB-thats-me]

Here’s a theory I’d like someone who has the skills to take seriously.
By August, 2020, most international and a great deal of internal aircraft flights had been curtailed. That’s hundreds of thousand jet air craft on the ground and not at 30, 00+ feet.
By applying conservation of angular momentum, the rotation of the earth should have increased. Not by much but measurably at least.
This could give rise to a ‘lost’ second. All I need is somebody to do the math, or point me at where I can find a running average of mean solar day.
As always, I love your work.
Cheers