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Today, Russia traditionally celebrates the old New Year. This tradition has existed in our country since 1917, when by decree the new Soviet government calendar was aligned with real (cosmic), by which by then all already lived Western Europe. The discrepancy turned out to be as early as 13 days – exactly so by that time we were behind the “space clock”.
Is there a discrepancy from space time now? It turns out – yes, the truth Earth chronometers ran ahead of everything on one second, and therefore all atomic clocks of the world from June 30 to July 1 2015 will stop their countdown, that is, they will die for this extra give me a sec.
It would seem a trifle (this is not 13 days for you!), However modern computer technology does not even tolerate such a slight “strike”, which, for example, can disrupt the Internet. By For this reason, Google (there is already such a solution) will share this extra second for milliseconds and will gradually remove them during the day from regular time.
I wonder why the attention to the work of the same Internet is incomparable closer and more careful than to the work of the human body, which is subjected to even more massive blows every year, when in spring and autumn, do you switch the clock to summer and winter time? And although Scientists have long been sounding the alarm about this (risk alone heart attacks at this time rises by almost thirty percent), the governments of developed countries pretend that it is their nothing to do, and continue to do their dirty work for the sake of some mythical savings. Well, at least Russia refused of these experiments …
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