New Year’s Day 2006 delayed by a second

[Bookworm]

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.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10605881/



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[Clueless]

YES!! AN EXTRA SECOND!!! WOO!!!

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[Red Squirrel]

Wow some pretty serious acuracy there, the fact that they can actually detect all this. Pretty funny though. Wouldn't it be something if the atomic clock going to from 59 to 60 instead of 00 would cause some kind of atomic explosion due to some instability. All that over a second. hehe

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[Clueless]

lol if all the clocks explode at midnight i will laugh

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[Bookworm]

lol if all the clocks explode at midnight i will laugh

Well, sure, you wouldn't have to be spending your money to replace them.

What I think would be funny would be if some people from the future appeared just as they were about to change the clock, and said, "You don't want to do that! We can't tell you why, but just leave that clock alone."

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