Sometimes it is slower than other days and at times it is faster. Not many of us know that the earth’s speed of rotation is not regular as we expect it to be. The Leap seconds are added on the midnight of either 30 th of June or 31 st of December and it is announced only six months prior on whether there will be an adjustment.

While this is the general practice, this does not correlate to the actual and precise time in relation to the Earth’s rotation. Twitter Hashtags: #LeapSecondTimeAdjustmentDay #SecondTimeAdjustmentDay Why Leap Second Time Adjustment Day?Īs you would be aware, our time is calculated on a 24-hour basis every day with every hour having 60 minutes and every minute comprising of 60 seconds. The gods found mankind endlessly funny.'Īdjustment Day is a welcome return for Palahniuk and one that will entertain gods and mortals alike.Observed either on the 30 th of June or on the 31 st of December, the leap second time adjustment day is when a second is added to the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). 'For the ancient Greeks,' he writes, 'the absurd was closer to the profound than the tragic was They believed that all human endeavours looked trivial and laughable to the gods who watched from on high. Palahniuk has always maintained that his work is drawn from a journalistic investigation of the world around him, as if the dirt and grime were not distorting the image in the mirror he holds up to society but rather part of the reflection itself. Equally malignant counter forces are at play, however, and as the plan for war is derailed, the world fragments into isolated nations determined by race and sexual orientation.Īlthough there is nothing in the novel to rival the gruesome and hilarious swimming pool incident in Haunted, there are still plenty of wonderful gross-out episodes, like an ingenious method of male castration involving poisonous spiders, and moments of grim parody, like an actor reciting the manifesto for a new political regime, believing he is auditioning for a trashy TV show. A large spike in the number of male births prompts leaders to plot WWIII as a way of diverting youth revolt and simultaneously boosting the global economy. Adjustment Day is Palahniuk's first novel since the erotic slapstick of 2014's Beautiful You.

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