{"id":1066,"date":"2008-12-29T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2008-12-29T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:41:47","slug":"leap-second-added-at-end-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/leap-second-added-at-end-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"leap second added at end of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for everybody who will be celebrating the coming new year, make sure you don&#8217;t start (or end) your new year&#8217;s countdown early.<\/p>\n<p>the international earth rotation and reference systems service (IERS) <a href=\"http:\/\/hpiers.obspm.fr\/iers\/bul\/bulc\/bulletinc.dat\">has announced<\/a> that a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leap_second\">leap second<\/a> will be added at the end of 2008, making 2008 one second longer than it should be.<\/p>\n<p>so either start your countdown at 11, or end your countdown at -1, either way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>enjoy the extra long year! &nbsp;(it has both a leap day, and a leap second)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for everybody who will be celebrating the coming new year, make sure you don&#8217;t start (or end) your new year&#8217;s countdown early. the international earth rotation and reference systems service (IERS) has announced that a leap second will be added at the end of 2008, making 2008 one second longer than it should be. so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/leap-second-added-at-end-of-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;leap second added at end of 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iohelix.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}