ShadowTiger
12-27-2005, 12:02 PM
WASHINGTON - Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first “leap second” in seven years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth’s rotation. The adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight Coordinated Universal Time, the widely adopted international standard, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology said this week.
“Enjoy New Year’s Eve a second longer,” the institute said in an explanatory notice. “You can toot your horn an extra second this year.”
Source (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10605881/)
Well, ... ... Enjoy your extra second, I guess. :p
It is sort of amazing to me that they are able to calculate "time" down to the very millisecond. Gone are the days where it was hour by hour in Sunday through Saturday and back again.
I will say this though. The day they add six new digits to your digital wristwatch, (And heaven forbid the watches with faces!) ... ... is the day I don't update. Nobody is THAT punctual. :odd:
“Enjoy New Year’s Eve a second longer,” the institute said in an explanatory notice. “You can toot your horn an extra second this year.”
Source (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10605881/)
Well, ... ... Enjoy your extra second, I guess. :p
It is sort of amazing to me that they are able to calculate "time" down to the very millisecond. Gone are the days where it was hour by hour in Sunday through Saturday and back again.
I will say this though. The day they add six new digits to your digital wristwatch, (And heaven forbid the watches with faces!) ... ... is the day I don't update. Nobody is THAT punctual. :odd: