On 18 Feb 2006 at 21:23, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/16/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
:-D Extend the length of the day beyond 24 hours.
Now *there's* a project worth doing. Does this involve Superman and world-sized gyroscopes?
It *does* happen on occasion. If you use the UTC standard for timekeeping, you get an extra second once in a while as leap seconds get added to days (most recently on December 31, 2005). This, unfortunately, isn't all that much extra time for Wikipedia editing. A more substantial addition is made if you go by local time in areas that use daylight saving / summer time, where you get a 25th hour once a year when the clocks "fall back". Unfortunately, this is balanced by another day in the spring when you "spring forward" and lose an hour.