--- title: Here's How John Oliver Says You Should Spend the Extra Second Tomorrow description: The comedian weighs in on the addition of one second to the world's calendar canonical: https://time.com/3940169/john-oliver-heres-how-to-make-use-of-your-spare-leap-second-tomorrow/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-29T17:19:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:35.802Z og:title: Here's How John Oliver Says You Should Spend the Extra Second Tomorrow og:description: The comedian weighs in on the addition of one second to the world's calendar og:url: https://time.com/3940169/john-oliver-heres-how-to-make-use-of-your-spare-leap-second-tomorrow/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How John Oliver Says You Should Spend the Extra Second Tomorrow twitter:description: The comedian weighs in on the addition of one second to the world's calendar twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # John Oliver: Here's How to Make Use of Your Spare 'Leap Second' Tomorrow by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 29, 2015 5:19 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 29, 2015 5:19 PM UTC Everyone’s day will be a [second longer on Tuesday](http://time.com/3666522/leap-second/), thanks to the “[leap second](http://time.com/3666522/leap-second/)” added to our clocks to compensate for the gradual slowing in the Earth’s rotation. With 86,401 seconds in your day instead of 86,400 seconds, what are you going to do with all that extra time? John Oliver shared some ideas on Sunday on Last Week Tonight. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3940169/john-oliver-heres-how-to-make-use-of-your-spare-leap-second-tomorrow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3940169/john-oliver-heres-how-to-make-use-of-your-spare-leap-second-tomorrow/"},"headline":"John Oliver: Here's How to Make Use of Your Spare 'Leap Second' Tomorrow","datePublished":"2015-06-29T17:19:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:35.802Z","description":"The comedian weighs in on the addition of one second to the world's calendar","url":"https://time.com/3940169/john-oliver-heres-how-to-make-use-of-your-spare-leap-second-tomorrow/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","Science topic","entertainment","John Oliver"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3940169/john-oliver-heres-how-to-make-use-of-your-spare-leap-second-tomorrow/","name":"John Oliver: Here's How to Make Use of Your Spare 'Leap Second' Tomorrow"}}]}] ```