Don’t blink

Or you will miss tonight’s leap second.

Today’s extra second will be added at the U.S. Naval Observatory’s Master Clock Facility in Washington at 6:59:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Don’t squander it.

Wonder why they picked that time to record the leap second? Wouldn’t it have been a bit more fun to add it to the countdown to midnight?

10 .. 9 .. 8 .. 7 .. 6 .. 5 .. 4 .. 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. 1 ..

Heck, I’ll bet few would even notice :)

This entry was written by vjp and posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 8:33 am and filed under Fun stuff. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. LittleDavid
    Posted Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 10:32 am | Permalink

    Thanks Vivian.

    This is going to make for great conversation during tonight’s party.

  2. spotter
    Posted Friday, January 2, 2009 at 11:53 am | Permalink

    We realized after the fact that the added second was set for midnight Greenwich mean time.

  3. LittleDavid
    Posted Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 10:45 am | Permalink

    Anybody who watched the Times Square count down would have noticed that the crowds countdown did not match the clock. They were about one second apart. Somebody did not reset their clock for the leap second!

    I did not get around to introducing this to the conversation until after this happened. Nobody else had seemed to notice it. But surprisingly everyone seemed to be aware of the leap second.

    To cover all bases you just needed to start your kiss one second early and linger a little bit.