{"id":6335,"date":"2015-06-30T06:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2015-06-30T06:45:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T06:45:54","slug":"introducing-momentarily-the-amazon-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/06\/30\/introducing-momentarily-the-amazon-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing, momentarily, the 'Amazon Second'"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon, in addition to selling <em>stuff<\/em>, is now in the time-shifting business. \u00a0From 1200 today,\u00a030th June, to 1200 on 1 July, the universal second, according to Amazon, will be slightly longer than seconds everywhere else. \u00a0This is because of the need to add in a leap second at the end of June owing to the slowing of the earth's rotation. \u00a0You can read much more about this on the Science Geek's informative <a href=\"http:\/\/thesciencegeek.org\/2015\/05\/24\/jun-30-2015-leap-second\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is to be hoped that\u00a0this will not result in the earth's shifting on its axis, or purchases via Amazon's going astray. \u00a0The first of these would be unfortunate; the second, cataclysmic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon, in addition to selling stuff, is now in the time-shifting business. \u00a0From 1200 today,\u00a030th June, to 1200 on 1 July, the universal second, according to Amazon, will be slightly longer than seconds everywhere else. \u00a0This is because of the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}