Award-Winning Writer Speaks, Do Away with Leap Second?

1. It will be cold today, with a high near 2, according to the National Weather Service. Wind chill will be between -17 and -27, the forecast says.

2. Woodbury's Legacy Dance Studio is offering a today at 4:45 p.m.

3. Award-winning writer Ellen Hart will speak at 7 p.m. tonight in Stillwater as part of the Writers on Writing series at Art Reach St. Croix at 224 North Fourth St.

4. United Nations delegates from 70 countries will talk today about whether to abolish the leap second, according to the Star Tribune. The leap second is thrown in every few years to synchronize atomic clocks, according to the article, but the U.S. wants to do away with it because it poses problems in systems where exactly synchronized time is important—like air traffic control or the stock market.

5. On this day in 2007, the first McDonald’s drive-through restaurant opened in Beijing, according to history.com.