The New Year Will Be One Second Late

• matrixeg

  27 Dec 05, 23:05

  Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first "leap second" in 7 years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation.
  
  The adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight, coordinated universal time (CUT) , the widely adopted international standard, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said this week.
  
  A leap second is added to keep uniform timekeeping within 0.9 second of the Earth's rotational time, which can speed up or slow down because of meany factors, including ocean tides. The first leap second was added on June 30, 1972.
  
  Under an international pact, the preferance for leap seconds is Dec31 or June 30.
• FireIce

  27 Dec 05, 23:06

  no lah
  it wun show 61 seconds
  
  usually is 23:59:59 then 00:00:00
  but end of this yr, it will be 23:59:59 then 23:59:60 then 00:00:00
• SGpork

  27 Dec 05, 23:07

  1 second only..
  nvm
• ceecookie

  27 Dec 05, 23:08

  1 second for the new year countdown?
  
  or is it one sec extre for the whole 2006?
• Pitot

  27 Dec 05, 23:08

  Originally posted by SGpork:

  1 second only..
  nvm

  If u count one whole year into it it will be alot leh..
• 798

  27 Dec 05, 23:09

  wonder whether they use assumation or not?
  
  the world is not ideal.
• matrixeg

  28 Dec 05, 15:41

  Originally posted by 798:

  wonder whether they use assumation or not?
  
  the world is not ideal.

  humans are not perfect... what else can we say...
• beavan

  28 Dec 05, 15:54

  haha cute...
• Honeybunz

  28 Dec 05, 18:34

  scientist so free one. one second also count.
• SBS9828X

  28 Dec 05, 18:37

  is it per day?
  
  or onli on 31st dec?
  
  if per day then my sleep mite be affected
• ndmmxiaomayi

  28 Dec 05, 18:42

  The one second delay is because we have to make up for Earth's rotation and some other factors like ocean tides.
  
  http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/25/leap.second.reut/index.html
• ndmmxiaomayi

  28 Dec 05, 18:43

  Originally posted by SBS9828X:

  is it per day?
  
  or onli on 31st dec?
  
  if per day then my sleep mite be affected

  Only one second for this whole year. So your sleep won't be affected.
• snop_coolz

  28 Dec 05, 18:45

  so this year count down will b 5,4,3,2,1 pei sei still got 1 more sec..
• maggot

  28 Dec 05, 19:21

  never noticed
• kingofbeholder

  28 Dec 05, 19:27

  my life will be one second longer
• abao

  28 Dec 05, 20:15

  hmm...wat can we do in one second?
• iNiKE

  28 Dec 05, 20:20

  Originally posted by matrixeg:

  Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first "leap second" in 7 years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation.
  
  The adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight, coordinated universal time (CUT) , the widely adopted international standard, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said this week.
  
  A leap second is added to keep uniform timekeeping within 0.9 second of the Earth's rotational time, which can speed up or slow down because of meany factors, including ocean tides. The first leap second was added on June 30, 1972.
  
  Under an international pact, the preferance for leap seconds is Dec31 or June 30.

  Does that even matter?We still watch Ch8 to countdown