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Leap Second To Be Added Dec 31, 2008

Posted by timothy on Monday December 29, @02:58AM
from the pregnant-pause dept.
ammorris writes "Don't be the laughingstock of your friends when you shout 'Happy New Years' a second too early ... The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service has announced that a leap second will be added on December 31, 2008 at 23h 59m 60s, meaning that this year will be exactly one second longer. The last leap second occurred Dec 31, 2005, they are added due to fluctuations in the rotational speed of the earth. You can read all about leap seconds on Wikipedia."



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yay 1 more second of playing fable II this year! how exciting!



If at first you don't succeed, you fail

Yes, I get to sleep in an extra second. ;)



So how will they do the countdown?



they could add 10 milli secconds betwene each count and that will even it out



If at first you don't succeed, you fail

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Global slowing confirmed.

We're all gonna die!




Or check out my new webcomic: http://selfcentent.com/

oh noes!!! run to the hills!!!



I don't know what I'm going to do with my extra time. =/



yay!!! more time to sing one more song!



Take that 2007!



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