New year’s day: Why this year will be delayed for a second? [video]

– In 2017, will be delayed by one second – What will happen in the new Year
A rare phenomenon I experienced the world that bears the name “leap second”..
There are not few those that count from now backwards to go in 2016… The bad news for them is 2017 will be delayed a second.
Why is this happening?
The rare phenomenon of “leap second” occurs when the international agency that regulates the official clock of the Earth adds an extra, εμβόλιμο second at the end of 31 December. The phenomenon occurs infrequently and is made for synchronization with the slowing of the rotary motion of the earth. This year, the extra second will be added to the change of the year.
This has happened before in the past?
The measure of the leap second was applied first time in 1972 and has become a total of 26 times. However, it is not applied without problems. Many countries have reacted because of the problems that creates on the internet and the satellites. In 2012, we have again a similar phenomenon, serious problems were major sites such as Reddit, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon and Foursquare, while problems appeared and the Linux operating system and the programs written in the Java language.
Google was ready for the change by using an upgrade software named “smeared time” and essentially adds a lot of inline milliseconds may not be a sharp change.