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- Maddoktor2, on 12/27/2008, -0/+1153...2...1...1...HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- DickyT83, on 12/27/2008, -13/+89One more second of Bush :(
- PsychoBrat, on 12/27/2008, -0/+66Nobody will ever know the real second of his birth, unless the nurses also record whether he was born during the first or second second of that second.
But realistically, he'll probably just explode. - moges, on 12/27/2008, -1/+64*****, I'm going to have to reset all my clocks
- jimminy, on 12/27/2008, -1/+42He'll end up in the Guinness book of records for the quickest birth.
- OSXpert, on 12/27/2008, -2/+33I was going to make a joke about how diggers could use this extra second to have sexual intercourse, implying that they climax too quickly, leaving their partner unsatisfied. Unfortunately, that joke is a catch-22 because as soon as I make the joke, someone gets to reply with an even funnier joke about how digg users don't have sex because they have no girlfriend and are living in their parent's basement.
- radsdigger, on 12/27/2008, -2/+28What happens to someone born during that leap second? Just wondering...
- Residents, on 12/27/2008, -0/+24The atomic clocks are only off by less than 1 second every 200 million years? That is completely amazing. Another interesting fact about clocks in general.... they discovered quartz from a spider. There is a type of spider (sorry I forget it's name) that lives in the desert in holes in the ground. It lines the outside rim of the hole with quartz and sits with its legs on as many pieces as it can touch at one time. Once another bug walks on the quartz it springs out of the hole and grabs it up instantly. Scientists discovered from that action that quartz transmits a vibration almost flawlessly. This means the ticking of a clock could be made far more accurate in your wrist watch. Thank the spider.
- doublefelix, on 12/27/2008, -1/+232008 has been long enough as it is without scientists mucking around with it.
- intellimouse, on 12/27/2008, -1/+18"2008 sucked! Why would you want to make it any longer!?" - Conan O'Brian
- douglasr007, on 12/27/2008, -1/+15WHAT THE ***** IS WITH THE SIG!
~Doug - ledwyn, on 12/27/2008, -0/+14Dugg for "The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service".
Now that must look cool on a business card. - paulsabo, on 12/27/2008, -0/+12Well, as long as they all agree on it, they can do whatever the ***** they want... who's going to stop them?
- Talenthouse, on 12/27/2008, -0/+11Hopefully all computers can cope.
- SuperJason, on 12/27/2008, -0/+11So you can call him "Tax Refund"?
- Mujokan, on 12/27/2008, -0/+10Hope the doctor has his catcher's mitt on.
- inactive, on 12/27/2008, -4/+13 the second is added BETWEEN 2008 and 2009,,so if the baby is born during that second it will have been born in 2008 because 2009 does not start until AFTER that second is up...
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(")_(").......swift - asgardshill, on 12/27/2008, -0/+9That's one second out of my life I'll never get back ...
Ah, never mind. - Steeeeve1, on 12/27/2008, -1/+9It will create a black hole.
- brownrabbit, on 12/27/2008, -2/+10[ :( ]² One more second of Cheney
- rubaaan, on 12/27/2008, -0/+8awesome! extra sleep time.
- Metasquares, on 12/28/2008, -0/+8Their motto could be "we make the world go round" :)
- sinkhead, on 12/27/2008, -0/+7I don't get it :(
- had3l, on 12/27/2008, -0/+7You better start stacking supplies in your doomsday shelter, just in case.
- Nothlit, on 12/27/2008, -3/+9Thank you for that wonderfully dull one-line summary of this article. I shall now bury you.
- Mujokan, on 12/27/2008, -0/+6As opposed to all the seconds you did get back?
- mrblaack, on 12/29/2008, -0/+6wait a second...
- Chrysalii, on 12/27/2008, -0/+5lousy Smarch weather.
- GodlikeMole, on 12/27/2008, -1/+6You know, if we standardized the length of a year, snow in the summer would happen more often. Seriously though, while a second isn't much, it's nice to know that the world's timekeepers are this anal. My only wish is that the other scientists of the world could be this serious about their jobs.
- mysedai, on 12/27/2008, -2/+7Since you seem unable to grasp this scientifically, let me put this another way...
All of the clocks in the world are going into time out for one second. Then, they are going to start ticking again, because our clocks and the planet don't go the same speed. You don't have to worry about something as scary as an extra month, because that wouldn't fix anything, now would it?
Oh, by the way, you have some strained carrots in your hair. You should ask mommy to take care of that for you. - LucasVB, on 12/27/2008, -0/+4bury
- Paulish, on 12/27/2008, -0/+4There is a bigger issue at hand here guys! The earth is slowing its rotation at a rate that... wait.. I'll be long dead. ***** it.
- neofreakiii, on 12/27/2008, -1/+5Hooray let's all celebrate this so important second that keeps all our clocks and calendars on time! (sorry for the pun)
- RunawayElf, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I give you a digg for effort.
- laserdog, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3For all those NTP administrators out there, good info on how to update your leap-seconds file from NIST:
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/Configurin ...
Based on the file timestamp it looks like NIST added the 2009 leap second August 8th of this year, so this isn't a last minute change. - Chalks777, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3Leap seconds get added (or possibly even subtracted!) every now and then. According to wikipedia, they have to be observed, hence the reason they aren't predicted too far ahead of time. If you would like to get an email any time there is one, the official website lets you subscribe: http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/products/bulletins/b ... (bulletin C)
Leap seconds rule. - Ghoztt, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3Ha! This is the plot for "Southland Tales"
- skinflute, on 12/27/2008, -1/+4I'll spend the extra time with my loved ones.
- Steeeeve1, on 12/27/2008, -2/+5ok, you're buried.
- bipolarruledout, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2If this throws off your daily schedule you seriously need help.
- akchrs, on 12/27/2008, -1/+3I like it because I'll be able to sleep in.
- thatelliskid, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2"According to wikipedia"
- Azathothh, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2no problem here, my PC is wor=]?´*´+´+?=)'309'0 ?=)?=)
-.`â - bduddy, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2The clocks are right. Earth is wrong.
- cg4et, on 12/28/2008, -0/+2I guess you can't win them all. :)
- Mujokan, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2I'd heard there were riots in 1751 when the British took 11 days out of the calendar, but checking on Wikipedia right now apparently that is a myth. However there was resistance to adopting the Gregorian calendar in Britain and other non-Catholic countries, but not because of "lost time".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_%28New_Style ... - armakaryk, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2funny story. there actually are leap months on certain calenders.
- Meocross, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2just because we gained an "extra second" the whole world warps? excellent crapage
- homersaysdoh, on 12/29/2008, -1/+2One more second of diggers bitching about Bush :(
- emt1451, on 12/29/2008, -1/+2While I think it does make sense to base time off of the rotation of the earth - I wish it was in the base-10 system. Also, it's stupid that the number of days in each month varies.
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