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Mon1k3redit on 10-1-2014 by Mon1k3r because: gOOfedit on 10-1-2014 by Mon1k3r because: derp factor title
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 25 such leap seconds have been inserted. The most recent one happened on June 30, 2012 at 23:59:60 UTC.[1]
Mon1k3r
reply to post by Cabin
But what if the real 2012 isn't for another 30 years? So sneaky!
Mon1k3r
reply to post by Cabin
But what if the real 2012 isn't for another 30 years? So sneaky!
violet
We don't need calendars to indicate a year has passed. We know which seasons we're in, and there's only four or one full rotation around the Sun.
Cabin
reply to post by Mon1k3r
The real 2012 was about 4.5 billion years ago, that was my point.
Mon1k3r
What if at some point in the last 2013 years the historical record was mismanaged due to circumstance or manipulated by some humans?
I mean, 2000 years, that's a pretty long time, and if humans are managing something, there has to be a margin of error inherent, right? Plus or minus 50 years is about as bad as I think we'd do, if we were diligent.
And the victor writes the story. What if they didn't like the story? What if some time like 2012 comes along, and along with it a prophecy of some kind, and someone wanted it to be AN EVEN BIGGER SURPRISE?!
What if it's really like 1984 or something ironic like that?edit on 10-1-2014 by Mon1k3r because: gOOfedit on 10-1-2014 by Mon1k3r because: derp factor title
violet
Mon1k3r
reply to post by Cabin
But what if the real 2012 isn't for another 30 years? So sneaky!
So are you suggesting the time or date is being manipulated to fool us into thinking 2012 went by uneventful?
That didn't give them very much time to adjust dates, since the 2012 doom didn't start being talked about until around 2009. This gave them about three years to trick you
We don't need calendars to indicate a year has passed. We know which seasons we're in, and there's only four or one full rotation around the Sun.
Mon1k3r
What if some time like 2012 comes along, and along with it a prophecy of some kind,
projectbane
Wow, where did you get 50 year margin from....that is your pluck it out of the air guess? How would the entire world of been fooled? So diligent people would make a 50 year error? How diligent is that?
boncho
Theres a conspiracy about this actually.
Be sure to wear your tinfoil