Fugit.

But just a blink less, on Saturday night.

The Long Weekend

The world is about to get a well-earned long weekend but don't make big plans because it will only last an extra second.

A so-called "leap second" will be added to the world's atomic clocks as they undergo a rare adjustment to keep them in step with the slowing rotation of the Earth. To achieve the adjustment, on Saturday night atomic clocks will read 23 hours, 59 minutes and 60 seconds before moving on to midnight Greenwich Mean Time.

Certainly if the order of things is left up to me, I'll take the "leap second" option every time, assuming there are only two of us involved, looking over the edge, and down, into the future.

Easy choice.

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