Why 2016 Had an Extra One Second

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[@HPSshorts]

The best video about bricks EVER

[@leonleon2021]

NO! U filthy liar!

[@thenicnacshack1322]

Yes

[@AxxLAfriku]

NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear gol

[@fatrobin72]

Who knew that leap bricks could be so interesting

[@HPSshorts]

@@AxxLAfriku maybe

[@Cacttux]

This is half as interesting as a two second longer year…

[@z1re784]

Badum-tissssssss

[@LeventK]

Lol

[@Empy_C.]

oh my god

[@zeuss2986]

Your son would be mad

[@Cacttux]

@@zeuss2986 I know :(

[@adrielsebastian5216]

Fun fact: the acronym for the universal coordinated time (UTC) is a compromise between the English coordinated universal time (CUT) and the French temps universel coordonné (TUC).

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

Citation?

[@jbird4478]

@@Blue-Maned_Hawk Here you go "Fun fact: the acronym for the universal coordinated time (UTC) is a compromise between the English coordinated universal time (CUT) and the French temps universel coordonné (TUC)." - Adriel Sebastian

[@joermnyc]

And they couldn’t use CTU without getting a call from Jack Bauer.

[@thatsroughbuddy1407]

@@jbird4478 bad bot

[@jbird4478]

@@thatsroughbuddy1407 I'm not a bot. I'm a bird. I'm sorry if I misunderstood it. My brains are tiny.

[@AnyWayICan]

Here I am feeling old already and now I find out I’m one second older than I thought. How depressing.

[@gbksgbks1212]

Underrated comment-

[@deyesed]

You're actually a second younger than you thought.

[@OrangeC7]

@@deyesed You're hurting my brain

[@TheSocialSoul2.0]

@@deyesed an optimistic and actual way to look at this😝

[@cornzzn]

i feel bad for laughing LMAO

[@note5068]

"Felt really long" The really long: 1 seconds

[@Bradex.]

Video explaining it 6minuted

[@saltydraco3702]

Wow she also said felt really long -Opinion changed when she saw it-

[@mrafabrizi]

Oh no I made it 666

[@tacticalfall4505]

@@tk5gqj514 I personally think it works better as “seconds”

[@Miracle12348]

Okay but imagine 1 extra second in school or work, one second more of a boring family reunion, would you want that?

[@lemo4739]

This is outrageous! Who’s gonna look out for the prisoners who just got an extra second tacked onto their sentences?? That second makes a difference in the 20 years of jail time come on

[@frenchpaddy2111]

plus even if they committed a crime it doesn't mean they're guilty!

[@poopygamer321]

@@frenchpaddy2111 yea! just because the floor is floor doesn't mean its floor cant believe society

[@omair.raza1]

@@poopygamer321 ikr

[@lordlierhook3368]

Them spending an extra second doesn’t matter. Why well the extra second is part of the year so part of their prison time and even if u want to argue that the second is own year or something stupid. By the time jail processes and they walk out of the jail a second in fact multiple seconds passed by. Good job for airbus realizing jails are not on as efficient as atoms,

[@lemo4739]

@@lordlierhook3368 good job. You picked apart a satire comment. Are you proud?

[@zeroone8800]

By being at the end of the year UTC, most of the world's population actually experienced it in 2017.

[@JuiceBlack]

Well.... isn't UTC closest to GMT? In which case it would be half the world's population, as GMT is "0", with timezones plus/minus 12hrs on either side

[@merchanttf2523]

@@JuiceBlack Majority of the world's population lives in Asia and continental Europe and thus would have been in 2017.

[@JuiceBlack]

MerchantTF2 ah yes, you're right. That's a very good point.

[@jedimasterpickle3]

...wouldn't it be for the entire world, though? He didn't say that like...only one timezone experienced it.

[@zeroone8800]

@@jedimasterpickle3 The second is applied throughout the whole world in the same second.

[@leparkorcraft3100]

This sam guy really sounds like sam from extremities.

[@adrielsebastian5216]

Also that guy who can't stop talking about planes. Can't remember the channel's name, I think it starts with W.

[@Julianna.Domina]

No, he sounds like Sam from Wendover Productions

[@cooperglick4865]

Stop spreading Conspiracy theories

[@aspacenerdfromflorida1134]

I think he's been kidnapped.

[@peskypigeonx]

@@Julianna.Domina Shhhh, stop these stupid conspiracy theories

[@dajoosch1280]

I'm a simple man. I see a video by Half as Interesting, I'm happy.

[@rafihasan3772]

I'm a simple man. I see

[@elliotanderson324]

I'm a man

[@dajoosch1280]

@@elliotanderson324 yes

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@pisoplays]

Everyone at New Years: 3, 2, 1 The dude with the clock: hold up wait a minute

[@justingolden21]

"because we've done literally nothing expect read weird wikipedia articles for the past four years" accurate channel description tbh

[@NozomuYume]

The 2012 leap second glitch was caused by a bug in the linux kernel's timers not taking kindly to the automatic update of the second. I remember having to deal with it personally when all of our servers started to seize up. It sucked, but at least we could fix it ourselves. If you used a cloud provider you were at the mercy of when they decided to reboot your host. (You could actually temporarily fix it by manually resetting the time, which was good enough until you could install a patched kernel)

[@RedoStone35]

"Why 2016 was 1 second longer than normal" Wasn't it 86401 seconds longer because it was a leap year?

[@cbrandom967]

I think they mean 1 second + that day

[@AeronKabutoBlade]

@@larryscott3982 2000 was a leap year since it's divisible by 400.

[@larryscott3982]

@@AeronKabutoBlade Oops.

[@elen1ap]

2016 being a leap year IS normal

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

2016 was such a good year that god decided to bless us another second

[@koyangtsai]

I remember people talking trash about 2016 because of the amount of celebrities that died.

[@garofan9418]

​@@koyangtsai, IKR. That makes no sense. A large amount of them die every year. Plus, for me personally, 2017 was worse.

[@brambleheart]

@@garofan9418 Same. 2017 was trash for me, while 2016 was the last year I felt genuinely happy and issue free.

[@garofan9418]

@@brambleheart, eh. For me, 2018 was the last normal year before everything came crashing down around our ears. Yeah, 2019 was mostly normal, but still...

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

@@garofan9418 2019 wasn’t much better or worse than the other two years in the late 2010s.

[@ClayS04]

I love the shorter times now makes the videos more to the point, great job

[@gfx2006]

That thumbnail picture of the Mondaine (modified to "Mundaine" LOL!) is what caught my eye. The modified abbreviations for the Swiss Railway company is also hilarious! I have that exact watch.

[@LeeorEngelstein]

Fun fact: for religious functions Jews use apparent solar time so some hours are longer or shorter which mostly effects prayer times

[@EebstertheGreat]

Solar time (as determined by a sundial) was long considered the "correct" time for most contexts, since it reflected the actual position of the sun. When accurate, stable mechanical clocks became widespread in the 17th century, their time had to be corrected when set by consulting a sundial and a table for the equation of time. (Around the same time, GMT was established to help calculate longitude, though this only became practical a few decades later after the invention of the marine chronometer.) By the 18th century, "equation clocks" existed that could mechanically convert to solar time. It wasn't until the spread of railroads in the 19th century that it became important to synchronize time standards at different longitudes, making apparent solar time inconvenient. This "railway time" eventually led to modern time zones and the universal acceptance of ephemeris time (mean solar time) rather than apparent solar time.

[@LotsOfS]

Thank you for providing a link and timestamp to the Nebula video. Makes it easier to find.

[@mpommer2]

Love the watch in the feed! Great, fun watch.

[@MarlyTati]

Another thing that is as half as interesting : I love this channel

[@amadeus962]

Humans: let’s all use different languages, time zones and measuring systems because why make anything easy and streamlined when we can make it complicated.

[@commieraider3004]

Wow much society

[@That_Cruelhiii]

We don't want so speak some languages far far far away from us.

[@Pan_Blazej]

I love how accurate those space animations are

[@Paulkjoss]

Thanks for putting in the time when the extra Nebula content actually begins…

[@christopherg2347]

UTC is just about the only consistent way we have to store and transmit Dates and Times. If you ever end up writing a programm, do yourself a favor and only store, retreive and transmit UTC. You can convert it into local time during display, but at least you got one consistent storage.

[@AnarchoAmericium]

There's a programmer out there having a panic attack remembering the time they had to program... well... time and timezones.

[@Havron]

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[@gorkarullan]

I love your vids... GJ!

[@utkarshsamdani1103]

Thanks for the video. It was really informational.....

[@kubogi]

0:26 I can see Tom Scott losing his mind right now

[@Nixplaystrombone]

I remember ppl complaining about 2016 when we found out it was going to be one second longer

[@garofan9418]

To me, it didn’t feel any longer than 2015. I think 2017 felt longer due to personal reasons.

[@Judeinator9001]

@@garofan9418 2016 was the last year that felt long for me except maybe 2020

[@daviddegenhardt5420]

As a Swiss person, I really like the Thumbnail.

[@MatthiasYReich]

As a Swiss I’m appalled by the replaced abbreviations in the name/logo

[@daviddegenhardt5420]

@@MatthiasYReich fair point

[@lapislazulimoon]

not swiss but that clock face is iconic

[@DirectDokingStation]

Great re design of SBB CFF FFS on the swiss MONDAINE trainstation clock

[@calculatedfactoids573]

Love when Sam does calculations because of reasons!

[@shouraydey]

5:06 -HAI's great trivia show is actually Wendover's "A very good trivia show". Sam is an International Superspy.

[@Judeinator9001]

Combined with a leap day this makes 2016 one of the longest years in history.

[@Arondale6248]

yeah, I remember back in 2016 this extra second had allowed me to finish my midterm on time.

[@DB-thats-me]

Here’s a theory I’d like someone who has the skills to take seriously. By August, 2020, most international and a great deal of internal aircraft flights had been curtailed. That’s hundreds of thousand jet air craft on the ground and not at 30,00+ feet. By applying conservation of angular momentum, the rotation of the earth should have increased. Not by much but measurably at least. This could give rise to a ‘lost’ second. All I need is somebody to do the math, or point me at where I can find a running average of mean solar day. As always, I love your work. Cheers

[@alyandthecats]

That sounds like xkcd waiting to happen

[@Flint_Inferno]

Can you guys imagine if that second went into 2020? Man!

[@marsgal42]

I've listened to leap seconds on WWV. It sounds like something got stuck "...tick tick tick (nothing) (nothing) BEEP"

[@iPadAppTester]

swiss trainstation clock on the thumbnsil? i definitely watch that!

[@Weavileiscool]

This is why my clocks at home are always getting off everything makes sense now

[@Kavyatej]

i didnt know this, thanks!

[@bruinesuiker3870]

These brick video's keep getting better!

[@Ryu-hx5yy]

Love the SBB clock on the thumbnail It is also funny because the SBB clocks stops for around 2 seconds at the 60 second mark.

[@najrenchelf2751]

2:26 - whoever wrote these awards should get an award too! 😂

[@TheBBCSlurpee]

i surpassed the leader thanks to this phenomenon

[@grischu8277]

Now thats a nice Swiss train station watch on the thumbnail...

[@corro202]

Great video.

[@jwiljr9639]

I love this channel

[@MazterOfDisaster]

Every time I see a Nebula ad I am sad because I can't get it without a credit card:(

[@tortistortis]

That voice crack at the i on the end lol

[@blackoutlol2857]

Man that second was so long by the time it was over I had just walked out of my vault and saw the world after the bombs dropped.

[@martinjoyce779]

This one second was better than all of the years following 2016

[@shoeboy817]

I was 3 minutes into the video when I got a notification that half as interesting posted a new video

[@twothreebravo]

I did a shot during that leap second as well as the one during the 2015 one. So they were time well spent for me.

[@theofficialczex1708]

Somewhere in the UK, Tom Scott is screaming.

[@N05K177]

Haha, as a Swiss, the SBB clock ion the thumbnail had me laughing ^^

[@kelcrad59]

This is half as Interesting as a longer video

[@najrenchelf2751]

2:45 😂 I’m not like the other girls... I can’t! 😹

[@S1CK3_5]

Xd

[@TheDudeInTheWild007]

This channel is solely responsible for keeping the stock footage industry alive.

[@cliffgeo]

Okay this is more than half as interesting ngl!

[@sblack53]

I hear that nerd who runs Wendover Productions was on that series by Tom Scott on Nebula.

[@PotatoSmasher420]

So I bought the nebula bundle few days ago because a lot of youtubers i watch were there (i even used your code :P) But I gotta say I'm somewhat disappointed at how slow the videos load... Also quite often I need to refresh the page pew time to make it even load properly. But hey, there's the bricks video, so I guess it's OK.

[@zaqsd]

Love to see the famous sbb-clock in the thumbnail...

[@gvr2774]

it was js such a good year we needed an extra second to enjoy it for the last time

[@joemama-pw1vu]

omg the cosi marble pendulum clock thing

[@Zytron]

I wish these videos were twice as long..

[@blockify]

I’m so glad you got to have *bricks* sponsor you!

[@zahoorshah903]

Finally a video without anything about planes and aviation. Now i can finally die in peace.

[@jamcdonald120]

looks like this monster has never heard of the Dairy Queen Blizzard

[@LeventK]

People: Waiting for 2016 to last because it was too bad. 2016: Sike 23:59:60

[@futuregmchess1561]

Bruh Levent... You're everywhere

[@alexbenton226]

how about a video about the tones tv commercials aren't allowed to play behind their ads because they wake up sleeping people? (but youtube commercials are allowed to play)

[@frankhaugen]

Briiiiiiiiicks part deux!!!! When??!!!!??

[@lelepao]

Damn, I waited all this years to have answer

[@YamamotoTV2021]

1:26 Wait a minute… You have a record?

[@BnORailFan]

I actually stayed up until midnight just to watch my computer show the extra second but it didn't. 😢

[@Joserider123]

Doing a plank at the gym takes a second and turns it into a year.

[@Erty_]

2:37 orloj clock from Prague

[@pieclient]

Now I can tell my kids that one year that I lived was 1 second longer than it should have been.

[@pen_l]

that was a very long year…

[@windturbine6796]

Life has been all downhill since the extra second.

[@18ScorpiiREAL]

1:30 not only 2016, but also this video had an extra second

[@massimookissed1023]

Ice caps melting *_slows_* our rotation, as all that H₂O is free to head to the equator, which is further away from Earth's axis of rotation. Conservation of angular momentum and all that jazz.

[@corchem]

EXACTLY! I am glad you caught that as well. My comment was much like your comment. Here it is: The Earth is gaining ice, and that would explain Earth speeding up. 1. sloshing liquid water would cause a reduction in rotational speed. 2. Conservation of mass near its center of rotation (ice near the poles) would also cause an increase in speed. Melting poles would cause more mass around the equator from liquid water migrating there due to Earth's rotation, slowing down the rotation like an ice skater with their arms out...

[@Pixomite]

Einstein: 2016 will probably have an extra day. Half As Interesting: *2016 will probably have an extra 86,401 seconds.*

[@corchem]

The Earth is gaining ice, and that would explain Earth speeding up. 1. sloshing liquid water would cause a reduction in rotational speed. 2. Conservation of mass near its center of rotation (ice near the poles) would also cause an increase in speed. Melting poles would cause more mass around the equator from liquid water migrating there due to Earth's rotation, slowing down the rotation like an ice skater with their arms out...

[@W.13th]

"+1" serves 3 purposes. 2 are clever but 3rd isn't meant to be --> [1] 5m 39s run time (239 "+1" = "240") [2] "+1" also w/in red & enlarged is an in-advance announcement of a leap second to viewer(s) towards run time

[@igamse]

4:30 I thought mister KZbin preferes longer videos

[@tcswed]

Holy crap! I knew that year felt longer.

[@langolier9]

It just boggles my mind that we can calculate the earth rotation, so absolutely precisely. I just can’t wrap my mind around it but I don’t deny it.

[@corinneng5331]

No wonder the amazing year with my crush felt longer. Even though it was pretty short (he moved away) and we are friends now

[@TomTom-cm2oq]

1:36 shout out to Prague Orloj

[@scottydude456]

I remember trying to look at my clock at the exact extra second because I thought it would say 12:60

[@bloubear2557]

Imagine if this vid is 5:41 mins long, with the extra second as well

[@brostrod]

The worst part is that now all my clocks are 1 second off

[@kubareszka2210]

Usogui: *"Interesting"*

[@bluerazzbery]

4:40 capris salad is pretty good

[@Miki19910723]

Wasn't this video available before in full? Isn't this reupload or other channel made this similar of a video without nebula at the end?

[@iced8406]

This means we need change 4/5 seconds ahead than normal :)

[@xdrfvgyhn64]

Wait, is this THAT same second in Usogui? 😳

[@ojtheaviator1795]

2016: "hey, hey, hey there, can you hang on a sec?"

[@trainmaster997]

Can you add subtitles? There is a feature called auto-sync that lets you sync up scripts automatically with the video.