Need more time? 2015 will give you that - an extra second is yours
This year you will have a little more time - on June 30, exactly - to do those things you want
If you were hoping to find a little more time for yourself or your loved ones in the new year, you are in luck: 2015 is going to be exactly one second longer than 2014 was.
The "leap second" was decreed last week by astronomers at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service in Paris who measure earth's rotation and compare it to the time kept by atomic clocks. It's the 26th time this has happened since atomic clocks started governing our time.
"It's not like the leap day, which everyone knows about years in advance," said John Lowe, who works at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado. "It's not predictable. Nobody knows when the next one will be."
The extra second will be tacked on to the final minute of June 30.
On that day, the official atomic clocks that keep Universal Coordinated Time will mark the time as 23h 59m 59s, followed by the leap second 23h 59m 60s. July 1 will continue as usual, beginning with 0h 0m 0s.
The international timekeeping community has two ways of measuring the passing of our days. The first, known as astronomical time, is based on how long it takes earth to make one complete spin on its axis.
