Re: U.S. Naval Observatory to Add Leap Second to Clocks (Forwarded)
- From: Alan Anderson <aranders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:20:43 GMT
echomko_at_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric Chomko) wrote:
> Give the guy a break, wait a second after you see the ball drop at Times
> Square and then yell "happy new year".
You seem to enjoy starting arguments, and that suggestion is right in
character. By the time midnight comes in New York City, the leap second
will be five hours in the past. The official Times Square clock will
already have accounted for it long before anyone starts chanting the
countdown.
(They did it wrong when 1988 came around, with a laser writing out the
sequence 5...4...3...2...1...LEAP...HAPPY NEW YEAR! They got enough
complaints from nit-picking chronogeeks that they won't make that
mistake again.)
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