Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Set your clocks back 1 second

Be sure to set your clocks back 1 second on New Years Eve. "Time marches on, but Earth is falling behind. The solution again this year is to add a "leap second" as 2005 ticks away, so Earth can catch up with the atomic clocks that have defined time since their unerring accuracy trumped the heavens three decades ago.

This will be the first leap second in seven years, and its arrival will be closely watched by physicists and astronomers enmeshed in a prolonged debate over the future of time in a world increasingly dominated by technology."

1 comment:

m.d. mcmullin said...

This year's New Year's Eve countdown:

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-1-Happy New Year!