Why Denmark used to be .04 seconds behind the world

Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they shouldn't. UPDATE, March 2023: The law has now been changed! www.ft.dk/samling/20222/lovfo...
Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin)
Thanks to Thor Nielsen for the suggestion!
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[@TomScottGo]

Update, March 2023: the law has now been changed! www.ft.dk/samling/20222/lovforslag/l19/20222_l19_som_vedtaget.htm

[@fabianbailey488]

Finally!!!

[@JBRedux]

and now everyone's getting this in their feeds again lmao

[@MegaBradster1]

Oh dang that’s neat

[@daniellyngbycommerou8919]

This change reached national news in primetime, so came here to let you know about the change - but you even beat me to it! 😮

[@jesperhaurenrrevang5731]

Great news

[@yotobianoacaso]

Every 60 seconds in Denmark, less than a minute passes. Together we can change it

[@omardude39]

Why does this feel suspiciously like a UK government ad campaign?

[@hadrov]

@@omardude39 Why does this feel like something Bono would say?

[@kerriganqueenofblades7128]

Isn’t this a quote from somewhere?

[@nathanielle]

@@kerriganqueenofblades7128 it's probably from "every 60 seconds in africa a minute passes. Together we can stop this"

[@TorchwoodPandP]

Monty Python comes to mind… and yes I’m a Dane.

[@Tingorilla]

Throws rock through border Rock: *lags*

[@janniesins1687]

Tingorilla you deserve way more likes😂

[@Teveslanden]

Tingorilla nice

[@ollinnature9506]

Throws rock back Rock: Reported for cheating

[@Slurpzze]

lmao

[@sexhaver32_31]

Ping 1347ms

[@schnemley]

2 years later and his code is still going strong: 0.17 seconds behind

[@youisstupid2586]

18 now

[@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568]

.18 now at 2021/04/20

[@skyeplays1772]

@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 lemme guess, you switched to the American dates for that one joke?

[@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568]

@@skyeplays1772 sorry, what? i don't understand you.

[@o3_o3_28]

@@skyeplays1772 YYYY/MM/DD isn’t the American date formatting...

[@OneDreamOneMoon]

It has finally been announced that the law will be updated to using UTC+1 on March 26th 2023 - it also involves establishing a Danish atomic clock and giving Greenland the right to govern their own time

[@caydz16]

That's cool!

[@CanYouPeeInYourAss]

honestly denmark could just disown greenland due to its "snow percentage"

[@handlevognhandlevognsen3128]

Fantastisk! :D

[@zabadabadoo]

"Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa" People in Denmark: Well yes but no

[@arthursmith9767]

Zabdiel Gudino 🤣🤣🤣

[@senseigoat4815]

Noice

[@arthursmith9767]

don’t you mean N O I C E

[@Fewchore]

How do you compare a country with a continent though

[@roachtingz9061]

.

[@JebemTiZivot]

So are we just going to keep overlooking the fact that this dude literally travels 100s and 1000s of miles just to stand in the middle of nowhere and talk to a camera.

[@The1stFishBone]

Nobody says hundreds and thousands. People say hundreds of thousands. You could say hundreds or thousands, but in this case it's more like a thousand. I'm just being pedantic.

[@KevinShinwoo]

@@The1stFishBone "Nobody says hundreds and thousands" They just did, and I've seen many people say it that way before.

[@JebemTiZivot]

The1stFishBone my guy, im an author, “hundreds and thousands” isnt a misspelling of “hundreds of thousands” its a different phrase and is used commonly in English European countries

[@mileskenyon]

Who's mans is The1stFishBone? Somebody collect him and take him home please..

[@RiksFunStuff]

@@The1stFishBone Then what do you decorate your cakes with?! :O

[@zornsllama]

“It’s probably not a good time to bother the British government right now” as true today as it was then, Tom

[@SeriousClassics]

As true as it is today.... uhhh...., person on KZbin.

[@victorcapel2755]

And as true today as it was a year ago…

[@ThunderSong]

And especially true today…

[@TheFrenchPlayer]

Still valid today

[@laurits_editz]

Also today

[@omegamon]

Denmark citizen: I made a petition to the government Denmark government: *actually listens*

[@Zaire82]

_Impossible_

[@viagra5207]

>denmark government

[@DeadSomething]

@@Zaire82 well, smaller govs actually are more likely to actually listen to their citizens. it's like if you go to one of the politicians in your local gov's office and tell them of your concerns and propose a solution, they are more likely to listen than the politicians in your republics state or the overall government of your country as a whole.

[@zerotakis]

Is it possible for other governments to learn this power?

[@willek1335]

@@zerotakis Not from a Jedi.

[@LethalMonarch]

"yo dude why is your reaction time so slow?" "oh sorry I live in denmark"

[@insaincaldo]

Thought it was because I get high, but apparently it's lag.

[@robertandersson1128]

OMG This is the best comment here, you deserve 12000 likes, not 12.

[@drownindesigner]

“my ping is kinda high due to me living in Denmark mb”

[@JixieDye]

The wildest thing about all this... I am learning Danish. Have been for the last two years. And I could actually read all the stuff you showed in Danish. I am so happy!

[@exotrrc1636]

Godt for dig

[@tristansoendergaard7867]

Håber du lærer det hele!

[@intelligentgekko9310]

Sejt

[@CrazyGaming-ig6qq]

Fedt mand, held og lykke med det! :)

[@deanmoncaster]

I'm learning Swedish and it is similar enough for me to läser!

[@NinjaDogLCT]

For 4 years Tom's code worked perfectly until in March 2023 apparently the law was changed.

[@OrangeC7]

*Casually writes up some code to dynamically change the title over time*

[@deanmoncaster]

Not like that type of thing is hard. :-\

[@CL-vz6ch]

@@deanmoncaster of course not... I do it most mornings for fun.

[@niniDORE]

from sélénium import webdriver gang

[@ollyhp]

31/7/19 *0.16*

[@Korrow]

OrangeC7 was it earlier?

[@divingdave2945]

When you watch this video at exactly the right time: _"Why Denmark Is .00 Seconds Behind The World"_ *well, duh...?*

[@pin9001]

what how

[@szorstkismuky3887]

what how

[@JuliaC-sp5qk]

what how

[@martinpusar6765]

Because the title of this video is programmed to show the exact number. For example at the moment, it's 0.18s but might be different in a week.

[@szorstkismuky3887]

@@martinpusar6765 i know, I watched the vid but the comment above was great for starting a chain

[@LiamRappaport]

I love that he’s standing in front of a Tycho Brahe statue, famous for being a great astronomer and for losing his nose in a duel over a mathematical formula.

[@theKobus]

And who died of feasting, which is not a fate many modern mathematicians can afford

[@crazydinosaur8945]

@@theKobus And i think he had a pet moose! it died when it fell down the stairs because it was drunk after a party.. or something close to that

[@cedsgm9205]

As a person from Denmark, I always find it interesting to watch videos about Denmark.

[@madscosmusmossin04]

Enig

[@SamuelPearlman]

"I think laws should in general be in accordance with reality" - hahahahaha, adorable scientist!

[@Artixxl]

Why is this the top comment

[@tolkienlover7881]

@@Artixxl it's great

[@tolkienlover7881]

@@Artixxl and new

[@tolkienlover7881]

@@Artixxl ur is weird

[@Theonederboy]

@@Artixxl and correct

[@jrkendz5505]

Australia: “we have the worst ping” Denmark: *oh I don’t think so*

[@sapphicromantic]

Denmark: -24 ping

[@jokerkeyz8805]

@@sapphicromantic That's good, that means you can see the future.

[@underlap1]

Born in Denmark, live in Australia. Close call boys.

[@makdipus]

Nah im from denmark, when i play some games i get 140 ping

[@jetscheme2125]

not how ping works but ok

[@IncertusetNescio]

So I finally clicked on a Tom Scott video a week or two ago and have steadily been binge-watching them since. They fill my "Random interesting stuff in a short video" niche nicely.

[@robertandersson1128]

I love the pronunciation of "Dag Hammarsköljds väg" xD Cheers from Sweden

[@Crosshill]

the classic english gps vaj never fails to make me snicker like a fukkn lil kid

[@midnight142]

I really love the fact that Tom actually visits each location to film, covering the exact spot, and talking with local experts. The best KZbinr currently by far.

[@midnight142]

@@the_colorman checked out the channel. It's brilliant. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@Saucyakld]

Agree, fascinating!

[@KCzz15]

I mean, if you want ridiculously high video production quality, give Mark Rober a try.

[@varma101]

@@the_colorman Thanks for *_Lemmino_* about the channel

[@Megaranator]

@@varma101 Get out

[@TomScottGo]

It looks like the code I wrote to change the video title managed to break notifications somehow, so I've had to hastily reupload this - apologies! (And yes, it's ironic that this video is therefore late.)

[@hey7328]

but is it really ironic?

[@maxkantor-gerber311]

Tom Scott hmmmmm, uploaded from Denmark

[@Snackattackbigmac]

Tom Scott hello

[@zinniaward8549]

@@maxkantor-gerber311 🐠 y

[@newbthinker]

It's well worth waiting for your videos.

[@Kamel419]

3:12 "Coordinated Universal Time, UTC." XD

[@juliameldrum6472]

Ah, yes, Uoordinated Tniversal Cime

[@arieailezion611]

its actually a compromise between french and English speakers combining CUT and TUC to be UTC

[@Kamel419]

It's actually Universal Time Coordinated.

[@TheDigitalZero]

@@Kamel419 You ruined the joke

[@NatiiixLP]

There are two ways you can commonly find it written in English, and neither one works: - Coordinated Universal Time - Universal Coordinated Time

[@PortableFreezer]

This is incredible dedication Tom. Thanks for making a video in Denmark about Denmark.

[@jesse-dg8yx]

The fact you wrote code to track clocks and update the title of this video is insane

[@keeyan2166]

@@pixiepandaplush I think the more annoying thing would be communicating with the KZbin API to change video names (if it exists) and finding a place to host the code which will always run (some server or scripting service) as well as securely storing his credentials there for the script to update the time automatically

[@tommihommi1]

@@keeyan2166 just a raspberry pi or old computer at home is perfect for this kind of thing

[@TheChemicalWorkshop]

@@tommihommi1 any tutorials how to use youtube API? js script?

[@TheChemicalWorkshop]

@@makak_zeleny hmm thanks! I'll ask my people about js, i suck in programming so maybe they can help

[@bradlemmond]

That's _so_ Tom.

[@coztic]

Perfect final quote: "Y'know, it's probably not a good time to bother the British government right now." 😂

[@szabados1980]

The British would probably decide to have their own time. Just to be different from Europe.

[@PCspray]

The UK 🇬🇧 doesn’t need to be on UTC there are literally thousands of better time standards. Time is importan! We will Take back control and not be a subject of Europe anymore!!! Greenwiexit!!!

[@JakeBiddlecome]

As an American living under Trump it does make me feel a bit better that the Brits are screwing themselves, too. I proposal a swap, Theresa for Donald. Trump will build a wall in Northern Ireland and May will help us break away from Florida.

[@meowtherainbowx4163]

+Jake Biddlecome Nah, Theresa would just make us subservient to Florida and strip us of our voting rights in an already undemocratic Congress after we pay billions of dollars just to delay because we decided that we weren’t self-sufficient without Florida for some reason.

[@Nastyswimmer]

Couldn't we just dump them both in North Korea (after all Trump loves Mr Kim) then ask if we could become part of New Zealand?

[@rockingrugger]

Imagine when the Danish 100m runners figure out that they just need to move abroad

[@flotfyr14]

At 2 am last night Denmark abandoned the old 1893 law. Today this guy got his way. From today we’re officially and legally synchronized with UTC.

[@technicality]

When you've got time: _Yeah, I've got time._

[@keddethan]

This is totally me when I’ve got time

[@meanwhile_0]

this is me when i have time

[@qwertyTRiG]

If you say so.

[@The_NSeven]

Me too thanks

[@SenshiSunPower]

A dangerous saying.

[@kyrla]

"It's probably not a good time to bother the British government right now... It can wait, we've got time" Well we've got about 39 days

[@louisswanepoel1614]

And counting... (downwards)

[@cosmicjenny4508]

+Asmodean Underscore Don’t you mean 3,369,600 seconds, where one second is- Y’know what, I’m not typing that out for a second time.

[@korayacar1444]

Evan Blenkinsopp a “second“ time

[@timevers6525]

@@cosmicjenny4508 3.4 megasecond if you want to be fancy.

[@cosmicjenny4508]

+Koray Acar I’m actually annoyed at how easily I missed that. Kudos!

[@liamd3248]

OKAY BUT WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HOW THE METROLOGIST IS LITERALLY CALLED MIKKEL NIELSEN WHILST TALKING ABOUT TIME THIS IS GENUINELY SCARING ME :D

[@Crosshill]

why tho i dont get it

[@CrushingReality]

@@Crosshill Mikkel Nielsen is a character in the show dark

[@TheLazar876]

exactly wtf! the coincidence is uncanny

[@opathe2nd973]

Really well done. The humor at the end made my day. Congrats!!

[@damesebo548]

Denmark in .22 seconds: _Hey guys, there is this totally new virus, you better watch out!_

[@mycelia_ow]

They're behind not ahead... 😔

[@deadlystanger944]

@@mycelia_ow | r/woosh

[@EliteAaron]

@@mycelia_ow You misunderstood the comment

[@iknowyouseeme3233]

@@mycelia_ow it works both ways

[@eonnephilim852]

@@deadlystanger944 I think it was a joke about how some leaders weren't acknowledging the fact that it existed, and if Denmark actually did acknowledge it then, they would've been ahead of, say, the US, where some states are acting as if it doesn't even exist up til now lmao

[@carlosmuller3565]

Does anyone even know how old Tom Scott is? I don’t know if he’s 23 or 43..

[@Enzo012]

33?

[@mohammedyakub3760]

@@Enzo012 34. You were so close

[@redchesterunited9773]

You copy comments.

[@carlosmuller3565]

Rashford is Red and you’re still single

[@fifsqueak]

is this a default pfp convention

[@1imbAl33t]

Tom Scott is probably one of the best narrators I can think of. I would put him up there alongside with Attenborough.

[@apveening]

Excellent comparison, I wonder when Tom decided to become Attenborough when he grew up.

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

[@yashasbalguri2189]

So if the world is ending I should be in Denmark?

[@AcolyteofRlyeh]

Naaw. Governmennt would figure out a way to tax you extra, for that fraction of a second.

[@danielnyo513]

@@AcolyteofRlyeh Tv tax

[@vulctrah2491]

Yes cause then you die 20 seconds later than everyone else

[@KevinRandomRecordsKRREC]

Vulctrah .22

[@dupiee729]

Danish Human Being er du konservativ

[@cosmicjenny4508]

You know how the old saying goes: _Forever, and 86,400 seconds, where one second is 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two levels of the caesium atom._

[@carlwilkerson9722]

I want a cesium atom!

[@YourMJK]

Not just any caesium atom…

[@etheroar6312]

Well said, sir.

[@renakunisaki]

@@carlwilkerson9722 you can't have it. It's radioactive.

[@seraphina985]

@@renakunisaki Cesium-133 the isotope that makes up almost 100% of natural Cesium is not radioactive at all it's stable. Traces of other Cesium isotopes that are radioactive do exist in rocks that contain heavier radioactive isotopes that break down into it but they are too unstable to exist in more than trace quantities from natural decay processes. The only place you will find radioactive isotopes of Cesium in any significant quantity is in the byproducts of a recent (within a few centuries which is very recent in geological timescales) fission reaction. Since there the natural abundance of fissile isotopes like U-235 is now so low on Earth that it is no longer possible for a critical mass to form naturally and there hasn't been enough for that in a very long time the only way to get any significant quantity now is from an artificially enriched fissile material so basically nuclear reactors or atomic bombs etc.

[@buddyroeginocchio9105]

Being Danish means, we have a right to make fun of whatever. Your presentation brings to mind a prescient popular song in America from 1959, it is titled SummerTIME Blues and is sung by the late Eddie Cochran. The final verse goes: I'm gonna take two weeks gonna have a fine vacation Gonna take my problem to the United Nation Well, I called my congressman and he said, quote: "I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote." Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do But there ain't no cure for the SummerTIME blues So, gentlemen don't hold your breath waiting on Parlaiment, you'll just have to keep twisting your old watch around till it ain't worth a skilling. Ask yourselves, what would Tyco Brahe do? he lived on Bornholm.

[@johndododoe1411]

Elsewhere on that line there is a stone or concrete marker indicating the intersection with a round number latitude. I know because someone made an art project to photograph all such intersections of round numbered latitudes and longitude, and the artist noticed the marker. Many other intersection points were boring or on international borders.

[@thatonebitchtotheleft83]

Wait, You were on my home Island... The rest of the world wasn’t supposed to know we existed! How dare you expose us!! Edit: I completely forgot I wrote this, I’ve been in Canada for the past 6 months so this went way over my head. Btw I’m not from Rønne I’m from one of the “smaller” villages on the island, Svaneke to be precise. And thanks for the likes and hope you are all staying safe and healthy☺️

[@Outside85]

Here comes all the Swedes, Poles and Russians! :)

[@leonstruckmeier1053]

Honestly, I am from germany, 18 years old and currently studying and until last year I even didn't know that you existed... well, at least that you existed right above us

[@dmitrishostakovich9559]

Are you an elf?

[@drdewott9154]

Don't give the Russians too many bright ideas. I mean the island nearly became a part of the Soviet Union after World war 2 and just imagine how history would've happened if they suddenly had a base there.

[@dielegende9141]

@@leonstruckmeier1053 I on the other hand, another teenage German, have spent 1.5% of my life on Bornholm (I actually calculated that)

[@nathanwilson2640]

The dinosaurs in Denmark .17 seconds after the meteor hit 👁👄👁

[@anon2916]

Nathan Wilson ?

[@elijahberg3606]

👀👄👀

[@cecipandabear]

ArcadiusKirrk_the4th HAHAHAHAGSHHAAH

[@stickpogostick]

👀👅👀

[@gior987]

This comment is extremely underrated. You're a genius

[@tonypang83]

I kept seeing the video title as "18 seconds" and thought his programming had stopped working! But glad to see whatever amazing programming he's got is still ticking along behind the scenes.

[@LukosAnthropos]

"It's not a good time to bother the British government" :'D This statement is only getting more correct

[@stonebear]

Right?!

[@gahregreb]

And it just keeps on getting more correct.

[@whatamisupposedtosay8317]

"Earth drifts a little" *Quietly playing Deja Vu in the background*

[@ohnono3984]

John Assassin hahahahaha “Takumiiiii”

[@the-letter_s]

deja vu but its 10,000 miles an hour and bass boosted

[@evoguy1344]

Haha

[@longtailgt]

So Earth is basically delivering tofus?

[@ZacTheLit]

My father .24 seconds after going to the store: “I’m just getting milk I’ll be right back”

[@studiosnch]

comes back and brings 1000 liters of milk because the milkman tricked him

[@DeathShiniGama]

Must have disappeared with that leap second.

[@kibe2134]

Sorry to hear that your father is danish.

[@articticcblu]

0.10 to 0.11 seconds, this probably shows that winter time is different.

[@NexzosGTA]

Love your videos Tom, nice one

[@randyferengi1128]

Have I seriously gone 38 years without knowing the Earth... wobbles? o_O

[@pedromendz]

Earth THICC

[@stephenolan5539]

But you did know that weebles wobble, right?

[@mirror1675]

Apparently so

[@Test-ri2kr]

Randy Ferengi Well now you know! Never too late to learn something

[@WildBluntHickok]

It's because the moon doesn't orbit the earth like you think, rather the earth and the moon orbit a center point like they were a dual planet. Because one is bigger than the other the center point is closer to the bigger object. In fact the center point is below the earth's surface but not all the way to the core. That's the "wobble".

[@anderssrensen8347]

The fact that i live in denmark and i didn't know this, and it is really funny to listen to danish people talking english

[@Zarrykotter]

Det er altid virkelig tydeligt

[@eliaskjrbo8142]

DENGLISH!

[@RuminatingWizard]

Isn't it fairly common?

[@arranli579]

You can always be proud that the Danish accent is really easy to understand than French or Spanish ones 👍

[@viggomaribogaardsted9496]

I really hate danish accents

[@Max.............]

I am blown away by your commitment!

[@SimoneFumasoli]

"It's probably not a good time to bother the British government right now". Three years later, still waiting for the right time...

[@coryman125]

Any day now, I'm sure! They've gotta figure things out at some point! ....right?

[@Rain_MG]

Every video on this channel makes me do the minecraft villager sound

[@0_-]

yes

[@HueHanaejistla]

shut

[@insaneoking]

@@HueHanaejistla no, u

[@AGNTMedia]

Me 2 :P

[@firstnamelastname-we6rt]

hmmmhh

[@Killerean]

I have old calendars at home from around 1900+ that still contain time tables to synchronize your mechanical clock using mean solar noon. Useless today, but cool as a curiosity.

[@elknackebroto7447]

keep it enclosed, your grand-grandchildren will get filthy rich m8

[@Killerean]

@@elknackebroto7447 I'm keeping these items well protected. I consider them important part of my dragon hoard.

[@RAHelllord]

You could check with local museums if they'd be interested in scanning them in for the benefit of the public, in case they don't have a copy already. That stuff might be interesting to a few historians and it'd be neat to have that knowledge preserved for everyone. That and with letting them scan them in you still get to keep them for yourself while potentially helping others.

[@5nowChain5]

Another one of Toms programing title scrypts is still working well. 5 years on. 👏👏👏

[@djzaid7587]

So cool to see that you have been in my home country!

[@Philip924]

That GPS really needs to know how to pronounce those accent marks for the word Väg

[@florabritannica]

Nonsensical pronunciations are one of the great joys of GPS. You should hear what google makes of Irish or Welsh place names.

[@robburgess4556]

It does make it sound funnier though, and just a little bit dirty 😁

[@fheedpexx9267]

Those are not accent marks. Judging by your name, you should know that Å, Ä/Æ and Ö/Ø are unique letters :) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ

[@Philip924]

@@fheedpexx9267 Well. Seeing as I didn't grow up in an English speaking country, I didn't know the proper term for non-english letters. But thanks for clearing that up 👍

[@WaffleAbuser]

"Väg" is actually pronounced closer to "vag" (in English) than it would have been without the accent.

[@alphaxalex1634]

UTC....Coordination...Universal...Time.....wait what?

[@AshtonSnapp]

France.

[@drewfoster1696]

Just like "SI" standing for "International System", the abbreviation is French. "Universel Temps Coordonné" and "Système Internationel"

[@McRaylie]

Universal Temps Coordinée, I believe. EDIT: Apparently NOT.

[@kodongo87]

It's a compromise between the English speakers who wanted *CUT* as an abbreviation and the French speakers who wanted *TUC* _(Temps Universel Coordonné)_

[@obiwac]

McRaylie nope

[@apach007]

3 years later and his code is still going strong

[@bluehairedemon]

My country used to have it's own time zone because we did our daylight savings weird, but then some people decided it's easier if we're synchronized with everyone else so now it's much simpler

[@ghfellan94]

The way the gps pronounced "dag hammarskjölds väg"

[@NortelGeek]

I wondered who they were talking about...

[@JasonLowderTheRanga]

When the GPS pulls you out of the closet posthumously.

[@kaykrazzav2431]

hey, we don't use those letters. That is our fatal enemies sweden

[@thea58193]

@@kaykrazzav2431 ööööååååääääää

[@kaykrazzav2431]

@@thea58193 off it hurts deep in my delayed soul

[@Rekken200]

"Mean Solar Noon" Sounds like a Fairy Tail spell

[@kiwi8054]

Who tf are u and y are u verified

[@erokai7075]

GuyKiwi He’s a youtuber? Don’t be rude.

[@Rekken200]

GuyKiwi who tf are you and why are you commenting on a year old comment as if I’ll reply

[@kiwi8054]

No

[@erokai7075]

GuyKiwi Did you really have to be rude? There was other ways you could’ve structured that sentence to make it sound more polite.

[@brewbearbrewer9510]

Another quality video, Mr. Scott!

[@irzaalishah]

3 years later: 0.10 seconds behind… the code’s working fine

[@mariecurie1502]

Im sure the code is working just fine. It's probably just taking the leap second into account.

[@tensevo]

I love the fact that stock markets are typically the driving factor for international coordination and syncronisation.

[@Crosshill]

some companies have their servers physically located closer to the stock markets physical location, its really weird to think about the stock market like that

[@JoshuaTootell]

Money makes the world go round

[@mrf4ncyp4nts]

TL;DR for those of you without time to watch the video - Back in 1678, the King of Denmark made a deal with an ancient Fey spirit to bring the country prosperity, in return for time off their lifespan. The king utilized a loophole in the deal to take .07 seconds off the life of every person in Denmark, fulfilling the requirements of the deal, but thereby cursing all of it's inhabitants to live in the past for the remainder of all time.

[@LordPixel2012]

yes

[@Smabbles12]

seems legit

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

We all live in the past. When you look in the mirror you are not seeing you of right now but you from .00000001 seconds in the past. Even worse, even when an image forms on your retina it takes .0001 seconds for your rods and cones to generate an electrical differential which takes a further .01 seconds to travel down the optic nerve to your brain. Your brain has to take the raw signals and parse it for colours, shapes, depth, brightness, etc, a further .01 seconds. And your consciousness appears to operate on .05 second time slices like an old film projector so what you see could take a further .05 seconds to register on your consciousness. So, at best, we all live about .07 seconds in the past. Worse still if you look at distant objects like Alpha Centauri.

[@Ryan-ir3zp]

who doesn’t have 6 minutes?

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

Fey spirits? Loopholes? The Danes? What have you been smoking and where can I get some?

[@R6Leviathan]

So that’s why they’ve just lost to England in the Euro 2020 semi-final...

[@sophie2724]

Definitely

[@dkahl2803]

No, that was because Sterling felt a mild breeze and fell over.

[@crazydinosaur8945]

or the laser

[@mongopopable]

GOD I loved how England lost the final. Cheaters like sterling should be thrown out of football. Shameful player.

[@TheDigitalZero]

Iirc, England won gold in diving.

[@SlayerofFiction]

Wonderful Channel, well done.

[@BudderB0y2222]

0.07 seconds is also the world record for a 1x1x1 rubiks cube Coincidence? *I think not*

[@parka0m485]

Isn't the record 0s?

[@phjorland]

I did it in 0.000000000000000000000000000045692047 seconds, but camera technology still isn't advanced enough to record it

[@philipt.1466]

@@phjorland sjovt

[@firefish111]

The record should be 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000 seconds.

[@timomastosalo]

And thus rises The Rubik Conspiracy Theory. So cube, you tute.

[@malkisehgal2481]

British Parliament: *Discusses Brexit* Tom Scott: Hey, Hey, Hey, Interpretation Act of 1978 is way outdated by tiny fraction of a second. Correct It

[@Yahriel]

hey, at then they'd be doing something productive

[@beojanstanislaus3255]

The House of Lords tried, passing a bill to correct this in 1997. As far as I can tell, the Commons seems to have ignored it.

[@ellan-rosecaulfield855]

Im watching at 0.17 I think it's crazy that there's a thing that you can do that changes the title of your KZbin video everytime something else changes this always blows my mind

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

"We've got time." Perfect ending.

[@amitaifeingold7866]

1:05 is... is this that dude with out a nose, who had an alcoholic pet moose, and died from holding in his pee?

[@magnus9618]

yes... yes it is

[@ricebeansrockroll882]

The very same

[@kamii2278]

What

[@NugsSlugsBugs]

@@kamii2278 the legend tycho brahe

[@lemonjames4962]

and hired a dwarf yes

[@CristiNeagu]

Laws should be in accordance with reality? That's not a very popular opinion right now...

[@migram4190]

Ooof!! 😭

[@MouseGoat]

well we in denmark think so at least. don't know about the rest of the world

[@GummieI]

@Nekogami-Crystal well some of our politicians certainly doesn't think so *cough* Inger Støjberg *cough*

[@GigawingsVideo]

@@GummieI They can force unrealistic law but when harsh reality come knocking in it will breaking through like an angry steel rhino.

[@sharpe3698]

*Cough* is-ought problem *cough*

[@allevalle8835]

3 years late but you traveled thru Ystad, Sweden. Very nice

[@michaeld5888]

I remember when they adjusted time by a fraction of a second and I went on holiday at the same time and my satnav showed us constantly travelling 50 yards off to one side of the road which drove me crazy

[@HarriWasHere]

Nobody: CUT: I wanna be UTC

[@mathcrazyow6646]

SI units

[@a4d9]

@@tf2excession UTC is not French nor English. In French it is Temps Universel Coordonné. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Astronomical Union wished to minimize confusion and designated one single abbreviation for use in all languages. They selected UTC since it does not favor any particular language.

[@GameKingFaiz]

@@a4d9 Well that just seems overly complicated...

[@peterroder4781]

Yep, instead of choosing something that fit with any language, they chose something that equally confuses everyone, because that totally makes sense.

[@gammarayneutrino8413]

@@peterroder4781 Why is an acronym confusing people? I think UTC rolls off the tongue better compared to C.U.T..

[@Zizzily]

So are you saying that this is what happens when you draw a line in the sand?

[@Haights]

When you say to yourself, "when am I willing to put up with today?" "NOT F***ING NOW"

[@nystemy]

Then we better not draw two lines in the sand.

[@captainheat2314]

@@nystemy 3 lines in the sand could do it

[@Zizzily]

@@captainheat2314 4 lines is right out.

[@Ahmed-qg7rp]

@@Zizzily 5 lines beats it all.

[@JerryTheSlime0]

idk what it is, but toms videos are always satisfying to watch

[@kibe2134]

Imagine living in a country where this is a concern. Denmark must be perfect or something.

[@Crosshill]

we're not perfect, and thats why we will never stop raising concerns, its kinda like a hobby of ours, probably cause we gotta find something to fill our newspapers with

[@asgerjensen9301]

Nobody is concerned about this in Denmark. Alot of people don't actually know this.

[@Crosshill]

@@asgerjensen9301 most people dont know about about clock trivia but i do think people should know that our true smug danish privilege is being able to raise any and all concerns we have

[@berkerrang4149]

I think denmark has the highest rate of infidelity in the world so

[@Crosshill]

@@berkerrang4149 you're gonna have to find some kinda source for that cause Japan does exist

[@olbradley]

Current title: Why Denmark Is .24 Seconds Behind The World

[@JamesTheFurst]

1 week later, its still that

[@cringium]

Yep still the same

[@alargewall1123]

Yep

[@olbradley]

Why did I make this

[@mycelia_ow]

@@olbradley the kush slapped

[@lithostheory]

The British should decide it through a referendum, that always works swimmingly.

[@joshuathatcher8614]

Lithostheory Update: the people voted to bring back mean solar time.

[@CrazyInWeston]

It should but apparently 47 million Brits dont understand how democracy works. Democracy is that the majority votes. The majority voted to leave the EU. Yet every remainer and their mums are blocking it at every turn!

[@goran5844]

CrazyInWeston 52% voted to leave. What a high majority you have there

[@hydrus2076]

@@goran5844 still a majority, big or small, it still is

[@janniesins1687]

“Swimmingly”

[@rebeccak3770]

The „we‘ve got time“ at the end killed it for me. Thanks for the video, I’m really interested in this topic and it honestly bugs me that Spain has the same time as Germany although they’re so much further west.

[@nathanpollard1223]

You know it [Spain changing its time zone to that of Germany] was done in solidarity with Nazi Germany. Maybe that's a myth, but I think it's true.

[@lunseren]

I live on Bornholm. It’s nice When someone is making a video about this place and it gets so many views! I don’t feel like many know this island

[@Luke-hy9mi]

It's cool how you actually travel to these places, unlike other fact KZbinrs!

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Other people make spelling and grammar mistakes in the titles of their videos and just leave them there; Tom Scott writes a script to continually update the title of his video to be accurate as time goes by. ☯ 5:58 - GMT, GBP, stones; and people give the US flack for ignoring standards and doing its own thing. ¬_¬

[@2911Delta]

tbh I now really want to know how the script works.

[@_Piers_]

I guess we're a month or so away from someone trying to pass a law to revert everything back to pounds and ounces...and what ever a gill is. Fleeing from progress in leaps and bounds.

[@Poldovico]

@@_Piers_ But we will love not having to deal with having the GBP inside the common market anymore.

[@seraphina985]

@@Poldovico Shame about the Krone, Krona, Kuna, Koruna, Lev, Leu, Florint and Zloty though I guess, well that and the Swiss Franc is in the single market too though not in the EU or EEA. Actually no isn't there an Exclave of Italy in Switzerland that uses the Franc too?

[@nathanjohn9151]

Tyco Brah is the most intense scientist that's ever lived, glad to see his ancestors are currently changing time itself.

[@SunKissedPeach]

i love the videos that rewrite the titles amazing

[@steen275]

**Passes line** **Elder Scrolls loading screen**

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

Ralof : "Hey you. You are finally awake."

[@Vespuchian]

"... to get UTC back in line with the annoyingly real Earth and stars" might be one of the most amusing ways to summarize the sisyphian struggle to define convenient absolute measures. Another great video, Tom!

[@ebbotnielsen4738]

I think it is amazing that I see this video now and you for two was in Sweden and the city Ystad I live in.

[@MrRainandThunderrelaxingsounds]

And so it's official - on March 26th 2023 at 02:00 UTC+1 Denmark will finally adopt Coordinated Universal Time in its legislation :-)

[@BritishTrainspotting]

An hour and 13 minutes ago, the change was made.

[@JamieJamez]

April 3 2019, Current title: Why Denmark Is .12 Seconds Behind The World

[@Roadsguy]

Almost two weeks later, already up to .13 seconds.

[@kiwi6014]

april 19 2019 0.14s

[@martinhorvath4117]

Just switched to 0.14s.

[@jacklogansmith7646]

.14 as of April 22.

[@jamess.7811]

.15 as of may 4

[@exm3266]

_Why Web Filters Don't Work: The Dag-Hammer-Schultz-Vag Problem_

[@TheOfficialBaZZe]

*Dag Hammarskjölds väg

[@Arenuphis]

sounded more like a vage to me but then again, we're transcribing it into english, one of those wonderful languages where spelling is only loosely connected to the pronunciation

[@rarbiart]

We have a "Dag Hammarkjöld Weg" in the (rather small) town of 20k inhabitants i live in Germany. So it's not so uncommon to remember him.

[@Arenuphis]

@@rarbiart not sure who you're responding to, no-one said anything about Hammarskjöld but there does seem to be Dag Hammerskjöld [road] everywhere, especially in sweden I'm right now next to one in Uppsala, a google search shows there's also one in stockholm, and as the video showed, there's also one in sourthern sweden not the strangest guy to name lots of roads after

[@erikhjortsater5461]

@Joakim Magnusson Fredlund if you ever pass by Kunskapsskolan Norra try to see if you can spot me ;)

[@memoxxi]

What a genius, writing a code for his videos to update the title! (It is now .16s)

[@kylebrake1806]

I love your videos!

[@XeLa-Em]

I just discovered your channel and I must say that I'm learning lots and lots of new stuff that I wouldn't imagine, ever to exist. Keep up the good work!

[@valentinaaugustina]

Bold of you to assume Denmark exists

[@lunamllebro604]

Thanks, we danes think so too

[@hendrikvankampen8053]

Bold of you to assume Tom Scott exists.

[@Djorgal]

@magnus hansen It does exist but it is a few milliseconds out of sync with the rest of the world, which is why it is impossible to get there unless we have a time machine.

[@valentinaaugustina]

magnus hansen somethings not adding up here

[@valentinaaugustina]

Hendrik van Kampen you’re right I’m sorry

[@MrBadazzz]

I actually live on Bornholm, and I really like really wanted to see you

[@FuzzyFusi_]

Grew up in Gudhjem that start shocked me