Time Correction (1973)

Duration: 1:26

Year Published: 1973

Sound: sound

Description: This news footage for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on January 30, 1973, asks what would you do with an extra second? Following the introduction of the leap-second system in 1972, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service can decide to make a one-second adjustment to Coordinated Universal Time to keep the difference with observed solar time below 0.9 seconds. The agency added two seconds in 1972, and another every year between 1973 and 1979.