闰秒

举个例子，英国就表示闰秒应该保留。

Britain , for example , has said that the leap second should stay .

国际地球自转服务组织负责决定何时加减闰秒。

Deciding when to introduce a leap second is the responsibility of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service .

摆脱了闰秒就意味着由太阳测出的格林威治标准时间的消亡，GMT也不再精准了。

Getting rid of it would mean the end of Greenwich Mean Time , which is measured by the sun and would no longer be accurate .

下一次的闰秒将出现在今年末。

The next leap second comes at the end of this year .

当地球（自转）慢下来的时候，科学家便给我们的时钟添加闰秒。

When the earth slows down , scientists add leap seconds to our clocks .

记者当地球（自转）慢下来的时候，科学家便给我们的时钟添加闰秒。

CORRESPONDENT When the earth slows down , scientists add leap seconds to our clocks .

闰秒起先一年至少增加一次，但是自从1979年来就放慢了。

Leap seconds were initially added at least once a year , but have slowed since 1979 .

但是上一次闰秒是发生在2012年，冲击了一大片互联网。

But last time it happened , in 2012 , it took down much of the internet .

如果有必要将闰秒计算在内，用户需要在应用程序级别上进行适当更改以处理这些日期。

Users need to make appropriate changes at the application level to handle such dates if it is important to keep track of leap seconds .

它说当2011年出台了这个方案时，新闰秒到来之际的未来也能用到同样的技术。

It said when it laid out the plan in 2011 that it would use the same technique in the future , when new leap seconds are announced .

自从1972年引进闰秒这个概念以来，重置发生了25次，但是随着电脑（和原子钟同步）数量的增长，电脑的问题变得越来越严重。

The reset has happened 25 times since they were introduced in 1972 , but the computer problems are getting more serious as increasing numbers of computers sync up with atomic clocks .

科学家们把2006年的到来推迟了一“闰秒”。此次全世界调时距上次已有7年时间，而调时的主要原因则是地球自转速度的变化。

Scientists are delaying the start of2006 by the first " leap second " in seven years , a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth 's rotation .

但是卫星全球定位电话、计算机、激光器和几乎所有带芯片的东西都没有添加闰秒，除非有人每次都重写软件。

But things like satellite GPS phones , computers , lasers , and almost anything with a chip , doesn 't add these leap seconds , unless someone re-writes the software each time .

它更改服务器使得每回在更新时都会增加一点额外的时间，如此到闰秒的时候，他们已经赶上了新时间。

It modified its servers so that they would add a little bit of extra time every time they were updated , so that by the time of the leap second they were already caught up with the new time .

有学者建议改变我们记录时间的方法，忽略闰秒，这样计算机、全球、定位电话、原子钟和人们的时间将会一致，将（闰秒的问题）留给我们的后人去解决。

Change the way we tell time that is , forget leap seconds , say a few academics , so computers , GPS phones , atomic clocks and people are all on the same time , and let our descendants sort it out later .

记者有学者建议改变我们记录时间的方法，忽略闰秒，这样计算机、全球、定位电话、原子钟和人们的时间将会一致，将（闰秒的问题）留给我们的后人去解决。

CORRESPONDENT Change the way we tell time that is , forget leap seconds , say a few academics , so computers , GPS phones , atomic clocks and people are all on the same time , and let our descendants sort it out later .