The Mysterious Leap Second
Leap Day's got nothing on the Leap SECOND! Hank explains why a second is being added to 2012 and why some are upset about it. Like SciShow on ...
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Hello and happy leap day! It's February 29th or it will be or it was a day when we celebrate ,we don't actually celebrate anything leap day is more of an acknowledgement that it takes more than 365 days 365 days in about six hours for us to orbit the Sun so every four years we need to correct for those six hours by adding a full day because 4 times 6 is 24...I think, it's not exact but it's close and if you want to know how we get more exact you can watch cgpgrey video on the leap year, i'll put a link to it somewhere nearby me but that's not actually what this video is about in addition to those 24 hours we're also going to be getting a leap second later this year 2012 is a leap second year what does that mean well it means that on june thirtieth 7:59 and 59 seconds p.m. e...
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Hello and happy leap day! It's February 29th or it will be or it was a day when we celebrate ,we don't actually celebrate anything leap day is more of an acknowledgement that it takes more than 365 days 365 days in about six hours for us to orbit the Sun so every four years we need to correct for those six hours by adding a full day because 4 times 6 is 24...I think, it's not exact but it's close and if you want to know how we get more exact you can watch cgpgrey video on the leap year, i'll put a link to it somewhere nearby me but that's not actually what this video is about in addition to those 24 hours we're also going to be getting a leap second later this year 2012 is a leap second year what does that mean well it means that on june thirtieth 7:59 and 59 seconds p.m. e...
