{"id":256027,"date":"2016-12-28T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T02:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/12\/161228213356.htm"},"modified":"2016-12-28T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T02:33:56","slug":"an-extra-second-has-been-added-to-2016-on-dec-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=256027","title":{"rendered":"An extra second has been added to 2016 on Dec 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 31, 2016, a &#8220;leap second&#8221; will be added to the world&#8217;s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, when the extra second will be inserted at the U.S. Naval Observatory&#8217;s Master Clock Facility in Washington, DC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 31, 2016, a &#8220;leap second&#8221; will be added to the world&#8217;s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, when the extra second will be inserted at the U.S. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256028,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256027\/revisions\/256028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}