Just a second, 2009 _ the Earth needs to catch up

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

we need another second of time!!!!!!

Quote:

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER and JAMEY KEATEN

The Associated Press

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

AT THE GREENWICH PRIME MERIDIAN, England — Just a second, 2009. It's going to take a little longer to say goodbye to the worst economic year since the Great Depression, but all for good cause. The custodians of time will ring in the New Year by tacking a "leap second" onto the clock Wednesday to account for the minute slowing of the Earth's rotation. The leap second has been used sporadically at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich since 1972, an adjustment that has kept Greenwich Mean Time the internationally agreed time standard.

Some scientists now say GMT should be replaced by International Atomic Time — computed outside Paris — because new technologies have allowed atomic time to tick away with down-to-the-nanosecond accuracy.

But opponents say atomic time's very precision poses a problem.

A strict measurement, they say, would change our very notion of time forever, as atomic clocks would one day outpace the familiar cycle of sunrise and sunset.

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[phkrause]

So we are older than we thought!!!!!!!! hahahahahaha

pk

[Nan]

I guess the extra second has passed here and I did not even notice!!

[Stan]

Nan

You can have mine...