"The future of the world's time is being debated at a meeting in Switzerland.
Experts at the International Telecommunication Union are deciding whether to abolish the leap second.
This is an extra second that is added every few years to keep time measured by atomic clocks in sync with the time based on the Earth's rotation.
The Earth speeds up and slows down as it spins, which means that while one rotation is one day, some days end up being a few milliseconds longer or shorter than others.
As a result, leap seconds were established in 1972 to keep the time told by atomic clocks and the Earth's time in phase.
Six months' notice is given for the addition of a leap second. They are added once the International Earth Rotation Service, which monitors the Earth's activity, has found that the two have drifted out of time by 0.9 seconds.
But those seeking to abolish the leap second say these one-second jumps are becoming increasingly problematic for navigation and telecommunication systems that require a continuous time reference.
These include satellite navigation, financial services, the internet, flight control and power systems, among others.
Countries such as the United States, France and Germany want to lose the leap second, but the UK, along with China and Canada, wants it to stay."
So my question to you is, give examples of how could this affect your life? I will begin:
IF LEAP SECONDS ARE ABOLISHED:
The things that I said I would do 'in a second' would have to be done immediately
IF LEAP SECONDS ARE MAINTAINED:
I could sit at my piano and play a sixtieth of the Minute Walz
I would be entitled to an extra day vacation every few thousand years
I could blink an extra time
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