On 18 Feb 2006 at 21:23, SJ <2.718281828(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/16/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)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.
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