2015 will be longer than last year

Experts on the time to announce the worldwide atomic clock system will automatically replenish one second on June 30, 2015 due to the reduction of the earth's speed.

The Paris International Earth Rotation and Reference systems Service has just announced that they decided to add a second at noon on June 30, 2015, Mirror gave believe.

2015 will be a second longer than 2014. (Artwork: Mirror)

Nick Stamatakos, an expert at the US Naval Observatory, explains: "Atomic clocks will add a second. So on June 30 this year there will be 86,401 seconds, instead of 86,400 seconds like other days. ".

Humans need to add one second to the time-measuring system because the earth's rotation speed decreases with about 2 milliseconds a day. So we have to add more time to compensate for the gradual reduction of the planet's rotation speed. The addition of secondary seconds took place for the first time in 1972, when the Internet was not born. This will be the 26th time humanity has increased by 1 second for the clock.

However, experts worry that adding one second to the time-measuring system may make the world-wide Internet disruptive or paralyzed.

When additional seconds appeared in 2012, Mozilla, Reddit, LinkedIn and many other websites collapsed. To avoid that risk, Google Corporation created a technology that added milliseconds to their watch system before the International Organization of Rotation and Reference Systems for a second. into atomic clocks.

The United States wants to take "additional seconds" because it thinks it can make the operation of telecommunications systems and disturbing locations, and undermine currency transactions that are accurate to the second. But Britain opposed the American idea because it was synonymous with the end of the GMT system.