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		</div><p>Google is planning to add one more second, dubbed a leap second, to the clock making 2016 last one second more.</p>
<p>Part of the reason why is because the earth during its rotation has minor &#8220;brakes&#8221;, and since the world slows by about 2 milliseconds a day, a leap second needs to be added about every 500 days.</p>
<p>Leap seconds allow atomic clocks, which are regulated by the vibrations of an atomic or molecular system, to keep sync with Earth&#8217;s orbit.</p>
<p>Since 1972, when the first leap second occurred, 26 tics have been added. The last was June 30, 2015.</p>
<p>Although, the atomic clocks are not built to deliver a 61-second timer.</p>
<p>Could it be that the stories of the millennium bug, &#8216;Y2K&#8217;, are actually coming true?</p>
<p>This is highly unlikely, as it is true that most Google devices we use involve time in their wiring &#8211; Gmail, Youtube, Google Maps &#8211; google has a way to more or less shade away time over a 20-hour period. So, in retrospect, you will not feel the effects of the added second all at once. Not that you would feel anything being that it is only a second of time.</p>
<p>Technical Lead on Google&#8217;s Time Team, Michael Shields said: <i>&#8220;No commonly used operating system is able to handle a minute with 61 seconds, and trying to special-case the leap second has caused many problems in the past.</p>
<p>&#8220;Instead of adding a single extra second to the end of the day, we&#8217;ll run the clocks 0.0014 per cent slower across the ten hours before and ten hours after the leap second, and &#8216;smear&#8217; the extra second across these twenty hours. For timekeeping purposes, December 31 will seem like any other day.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Adding a second to the atomic clock could cause systems to fail, however Google is determined to make sure that everything runs smoothly.</p>
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