One second please...
Just hold on for one second before you Auld Lang Syne this year.
When the world's atomic clock tick-tocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, this Wednesday, the U.S. Naval Observatory, keeper of the Pentagon's master clock, will do the same by adding an extra second, coordinating at the precise moment at 6:59:59 p.m. EST (23:59:59 GMT).
This will be the 24th one-second to be added to UTC since 1972, when the practice began.
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