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A minute will last 61 seconds today - 30the June 2012.

Time never stops for anybody. This old adage will be put to test as Horologists around the world on Saturday hold back time to make the last
minute go on for 61 seconds to compensate for Earth's movements.

The last minute of June 30, 2012 is destined to be 61 seconds long, for timekeepers are to add a "leap second" to compensate for the wobbly
movements of our world.

The ever-so-brief halting of the second hand will compensate for a creeping divergence from solar time, meaning the period required for
Earth to complete a day, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The planet takes just over 86,400 seconds for a 360-degree revolution. But it wobbles on its axis and is affected by the gravitational pull of
the Sun and Moon and the ocean tides, all of which brake the rotation by a tiny sliver of a second.

As a result, Earth gets out of step with International Atomic Time, which uses the pulsation of atoms to measure time to an accuracy of
several billionths of a second.

To avoid solar time and TAI (International Atomic Time) moving too far apart, the widely used indicator of Coordinated Universal Time is adjusted ever so often to give us the odd 86,401-second day.

The adjustments began in 1972. Before then, the time was measured exclusively by the position of the Sun or stars in relation to Earth, expressed in Greenwich Mean Time or its successor UT1. This will be the 25th intervention to add a "leap second" to UTC. The extra second is added to UTC, also known as Zulu time, only ever at midnight, either on a December 31 or a June 30.

Time-catching is as irregular as the Earth's rotation itself. The last three adjustments were in 2008, 2005 and 1998. The year 1972 saw two
additions, followed the next seven years by a second every year.

The vast majority of the world's seven billion people are likely to be blithely indifferent to Saturday's change, except for a few who may note the curious fact that they will live a second longer.

Every time a second is added, the world's computers need to be manually adjusted, a costly practice that also boosts the risk of error.
High-precision systems such as satellites and some data networks will have to factor in the leap second or risk provoking a calculation
catastrophe. For this reason, rocket launches are never scheduled for leap-second dates

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(1) To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
(2) Much of the stress that people feel does not come from having too much to do; it comes from not finishing what they started.
(3) Being kind is more important than being right. Sometimes people need a caring heart to listen and not a brilliant mind to speak.
(4) An unwise person empties his mind every time he opens mouth.

The modern world knows 365 days a year; and thereafter a century etc. The time calculation is being done from that upper level to the lower level of a 1/60th of a minute – a second. Fraction of a second or much beyond a millennium is not in the modern time calculation. Let us examine how Indian Traditional system calculated time and let us understand that Ancient Indian calculating methods are still a million dollar question to modern scientists. It is a fact that “time” is a continuous process, whether we calculate or ignore. It was existent, it is, and it will be.

When we go in search of the calculative methods adopted by ancient Indians, the highest time measurement unit started as “Kalp” and total seven “Kalp” periods is calculated and they are named as (1) Paarthiv Kalp, (2) Koorm Kalp, (3) Pralaya Kalp, (4) Anant Kalp, 5) Shwet Varaah
Kalp, (6) Braahm Kalp, and (7) Saavitree Kalp.

Each Kalp has been divided in 14 Manvantar and they are (1) Swaayambhuv Manvantar, (2) Swaarochish, Manvantar, (3) Uttam Manvantar, (4) Taamas Manvantar, (5) Raivat Manvantar, (6) Chaakshush Manvantar, (7) Vaivaswat Manvantar, (8) Saavarni Manvantar, (9) Daksh Saavarni Manvantar, 10) Brahm Saavarni Manvantar, (11) Dharm Saavarni Manvantar, 12) Rudra Saavarni Manvantar, (13) Dev Saavarni Manvantar, and (14) Indra Saavarni Manvantar.

Each Manvantar is divided in 71 Chatur-Yug and they are (1) Krit Yug, (2) Tretaa Yug, (3) Dwaapar Yug, and (4) Kali Yug.
(They are in proportion of 4:3:2:1, thus total length of Kali Yug is 432,000 years; 864,000 years for Dwaapar Yug; 1,296,000 years for Tretaa Yug; and 1,728,000 years for Sat or Krit Yug). Red letter indication is the present period.
Thus one Manvantar has 432,000 + 864,000 + 1,296,000 + 1,728,000 years = TOTAL 4,320,000 years

Each Yug has seven Shak and they are (1) Yudhishthir, 2) Vikram, (3) Shaalivaahan, (4) Vijaya, (5) Abhinandan, (6) Naagaarjun, and (7) Kali
Shak. Which means for present time, the span of years 432,000 divided by 7, shall be the span for each Shak.

This is further divided into 60 years cycle, and each year into two Ayan and six Ritu (seasons), each Ayan has 6 months, each month has two fortnights, each fortnight has 15 Tithi basing on the Sun and the Moon cycle, and each fortnight has two weeks, each week is of 7 days, each day into 60 Ghatika, each Ghatika has 60 Vighatika, and each Vighatikaa has 6 Praan, each Praan has 10 Gur-vakshram, each Gur-vaksharam
has 27 Nimesh, each Nimesh has 30 Lav, and each Lav has 100 Truti means 1 x 30 x 27 x 10 x 6 x 60 x 60 means each day consisting of 24
hours has 1,74,960,000 Truti period.

As per the Gregorian calendar we follow the present calculation of day as per minutes and seconds goes up to
1 x 60 x 60 x 24 hours becomes 86400 seconds per day.
Now let us know how Ancient Indians calculated time.
Each second of us as per present calendar and day calculation is sub divided by 225 by ancient Indians and the final is reached as Truti which is 1/225 part of a second which means Indians could reach up to the 225th part of a second long and long ago.

Kindly note that 1/225 second is the Praan Shakti leaving the body making any one dead.
It is surely a meticulous calculation which no other country could reach. This applies for both the micro and macro level calculation. Probably it is beyond the scope and knowledge of modern mathematicians.
All this was being taught to our children till about 1980s and when gradually children amended themselves for job oriented education than knowledge oriented education, unfortunately a day has come into our lives where we are forgetting our ancestor’s greatness and greatness of Indian Sages, when there was no paper, no pen, no laptop, no calculator, no telescope, no periscope, no modern equipments, still our ancestors could do wonders and over a period of time, we have fallen into so called modern education leaving all basics and fundamentals of BRAIN USAGE. We have more or less becomes machine dependants and it is not known where we are being lead to.

At least now, parents may educate their children – dusting out the old text books and give children basic morale and morale related education as well as knowledge base, so that children may use their brain power more efficiently and more accurately than anyone else on this mother earth. (Recent incident –I purchased two pencils each costing Rs.2/- and that shop boy took a calculator to find out the total?.. this is where we are ).

Let us all salute the great sages of India, the great mathematicians and the great kings who extended all support to such research in ancient days. They are all great – forever great. We are fortunately great having been the successors of those great people. Let us upkeep our greatness and take care of the next generation more carefully and more diligently.
 

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