Unnoticed by humans, earth rotation on its axis (rotation) slowed every 100 years. It turned out to cause a small internet apocalypse in the middle of the year.
Group of scientists who set the timeliness of the earth, the Paris Observatory and the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS), has decided to add a second in 2015. It is necessary to compensate for the timeliness world changed by the slowing rotation of the earth.
Scientists based on the atomic clock to set the time on earth. The hours are known to have high accuracy even will not change until thousands of years. However, on the other side of the earth who actually slower spin and cause one day have a duration longer than it should (24 hours).
To equalize the earth and atomic clock time earlier, scientists are forced to add a second in 2015, on the 30th of June. However, many believe it will trigger a small-scale internet apocalypse. How can?
The addition of a second despite a record can lead to disaster on internet servers in the world. Sites in the world could experience a crash or down simultaneously having to adapt to the addition of earlier times.
This small Doomsday previously unheard of in 2012. At that time, the big sites like Reddit and LinkedIn reportedly suffered a massive crash due to not being able to adapt to the new time of the earth.
According to the Daily Mail (06/01), the addition of a second on 30 June later can create websites in the offline world if problems arise servers that are not addressed.
In order to avoid the same internet doomsday in 2012 or 2015 that will come, world governments are likely to decide to remove the additional practice time earth. The US government for example, said that if it was not necessary, because sooner or later when the earth is not synchronized with an atomic clock due to slowing rotation of the earth continues to occur.
If true then eliminated addition, small internet doomsday in 2015 this is the last confirmed. On the other hand, people may not be aware of when in the year 2700 later in the earth one day to 24.5 hours.
source: dailymail.co.uk
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