How to make the most of your leap second? John Oliver has the answer

On Tuesday 30 June, your day will have an extra second. Every few years, one second extra is added to our clocks in order to compensate for the gradual slowing in Earth’s rotation. Thus, Tuesday’s ’leap second’ will ensure that the day has 84,601 seconds instead of 84,600. This poses a serious question — How are you going to make the most of that one second? [caption id=“attachment_2319396” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] John Oliver. Screengrab from video[/caption] Fret not, because John Oliver has the answer! Oliver and the team behind Last Week Tonight went ahead and bought the domain name spendyourleapsecondhere.com, which will make you wish every day had a leap second. The website has a countdown to the leap second and also boasts of one-second videos that you can watch to make your leap second extra special. So the moment you click the Press button, a randomly selected one second video will be played for you to waste your leap second. And the best part? You don’t even have to wait till 11.59.60 pm to use it! The videos on the site are as random as they could be. They include Patrick Stewart happily shouting ‘Salt-N-Pepppaa’ on a Saturday Night Live episode, a snippet of Mariah Carey’s dog and cat getting into a fight,  Nicholas Cage in a bear suit punching a woman, Bobby Canavale ‘acting the shit out of the words’ leap second, Bobby Ross saying ‘we’ll make you a happy little cloud’ and many more. But be prepared, you can’t watch just one! Watch John Oliver giving you a preview of how to spend your leap second: