This year will be ONE SECOND LONGER because the Earth is turning slower, may spark internet crashes- Time expert
        

This year will be one second longer to compensate for the Earth’s slowing rotation, time experts have ruled.
But it is feared the ‘leap second’ added at midday on June 30 by scientists at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris could spark internet crashes.
The extra second is needed because the Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing by around two thousandths of a second per day.
Saving time: This year is one second longer 
When the last leap second was added in 2012, Mozilla, Reddit, LinkedIn and scores of other sites crashed.
Nick Stamatakos, from the US Naval Observatory, said: “Atomic clocks add an extra second. So the day of June 30 will have 86,401 seconds, instead of 86,400 seconds.
"The length of the day for you and I and everyone on the Earth will have an extra second.”
Google has developed a “leap smear” technique where it gradually adds milliseconds to its system clocks prior to the official arrival of the leap second.

The first leap second was before the advent of the Internet in 1972, and this year will be the 26th time in history it has been added to clocks.
The US wants to get rid of leap seconds claiming they are disruptive to navigation and communication systems, and precisely timed money transactions could go astray.
But Britain opposes abolishing leap seconds because it could spell the end of Greenwich Mean Time, which was adopted in 1847 and is measured by the moment the Sun crosses the Greenwich Meridian