July 8, 2005

DEMOCRATS THINK EVERY YEAR SINCE 2000 HAS DRAGGED:

This Year To Be One Second Longer (UPI, Jul 07, 2005)

This year, 2005, will be one second longer than any year since 1998.

Nature reports that a leap second is being added to account for changes in the earth's rotation.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 8, 2005 7:01 AM
Comments

At 23:59:60 UTC on 31 December 2005, real geeks will be glued to their shortwave radios listening to WWV for that extra tick.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at July 8, 2005 2:08 PM

I wondered when they'd get around to that.

Posted by: Genecis at July 8, 2005 4:27 PM
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