Leap Second At The End of 2005

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 1, 2006 @03:51AM from the correct-your-watches-immediately dept.

Ruff_ilb writes "Because of the discrepency between an ephemeris second (the fraction 1/31,556,925.9747 of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time) and the second of atomic time (the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom), we're left with more than leap years. In order to ensure that the the atomic time and civil stay coordinated, "Civil time is occasionally adjusted by one second increments to ensure that the difference between a uniform time scale defined by atomic clocks does not differ from the Earth's rotational time by more than 0.9 seconds."" And Happy New Years everyone ;)

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Re:Happy New Year by dawhippersnapper · 2006-01-01 04:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

Day is left out. Happy New Year's Day! ......

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Working by isorox · 2006-01-01 04:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

Hey, I was at work at midnight, I demand 1 second's overtime!
Re:happy new year by FlopEJoe · 2006-01-01 05:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

happy new year, slashdot. let's wish for 365 more days of everything.
w00t!! First dupe of 2006!!!
Re:The hard way by Ruff_ilb · 2006-01-01 05:47 · Score: 0, Redundant

Actually, I prefer warping timespace and changing the frequency of the radiation of the cesium-133 atom myself.

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