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" The  Lie  was  raised  to  the   of  a '  Political  Instrument ' - - -  ''

" The  world  has   slowly  grown   accustomed  to  these  systems   of   moral  decay.
Political  shrewdness  in  the  long run  breeds  general  distrust . "
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Now    Religious  FEST  -s   and  POLITIC-s    are    being    made  into  a   FIAT   to   serve  the    dreams    of      success  in   POLITICS  , I  think .

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The  HIGHER  CLASS ,    POLITICAL  POWER-HOLDER  AND  EXECUTIVES  ARE  NOW  MORE  CORRUPT   THAN   B.P.L. CLASS., WHO  ARE  DOING    WHAT  FOR  MAINLY  'SURVIVAL-ISSUE '

 

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'Leap Second' Added To Official Time Overnight

The New York Stock Exchange closed early to avoid any potential technical problems caused by the tweak.

07:31, UK,Wednesday 01 July 2015

The Greenwich Shepherd Gate Clock at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich

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The last minute of Tuesday had 61 seconds in it as a "leap second" was added to the official time set by atomic clocks.

While 23:59:59 usually becomes 00:00:00, the leap second meant that the time became 23:59:60.

Leap seconds are used in the same way as leap years - keeping the clock in sync with the Earth and its seasons.

Changes to the 400 atomic clocks maintained at laboratories around the world are agreed by the UN's International Telecommunication Union.

The last time the extra second was added, in 2012, sites such as Reddit, Foursquare, Gawker and LinkedIn crashed.

This time around, many companies said they had planned for the disruption.

Google, for example, added on fractions of a second to its systems throughout the day. The technique is called a "leap smear".

Stock exchanges in Japan, Australia and South Korea used a similar technique, Bloomberg reported.

But New York avoided the problem altogether by closing the stock markets early.

Computers and software cannot be programmed with leap seconds in advance, as they are typically only announced a month before they come into effect.

Because of the problems caused by adding the seconds, the process will be reconsidered at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva in November.

Peter Whibberley, senior research scientist at Britain's National Physical Laboratory said: "There are consequences of tinkering with time. Because leap seconds are only introduced sporadically it is difficult to implement them in computers and mistakes can cause systems to fail temporarily.

"However, we have always taken the Earth's rotation as the ultimate reference for timekeeping, and astronomers and navigators still make use of it.

"We shouldn't break the link without carefully weighing the consequences."

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