Leap Second At The End of 2005 269
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 ;)
How did you use yours? (Score:4, Funny)
A cool thing to do (Score:5, Funny)
The hard way (Score:5, Funny)
Real engineering solution would involve changing earth's rotation speed to match the clock. Any takers?
countdown (Score:3, Funny)
-Sj53
oh great (Score:2, Funny)
Damn! (Score:4, Funny)
Thank goodness I didn't bother setting the VCR clock after the last thunderstorm.
Re:happy new year (Score:4, Funny)
How did you spend the extra second? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The hard way (Score:5, Funny)
Oh yeah? It took me about ten minutes to adjust all the clocks in my house due to the damn leap second. Multiply this by the 100 million households in the nation, and we have a very serious issue here.
I demand that George Bush pull us out of whatever God forsaken U.N. treaty that got us into this mess.
old news (Score:5, Funny)
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeah Baby! Which way to dee nuclear wessels?
KFG
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Great (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How did you spend the extra second? (Score:1, Funny)
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This is Slashdot. Quit spamming us with stuff we already know.
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Leap Second Lovers Are Traitors Says Bill O'Reilly (Score:5, Funny)
I remember liberals at a party saying, 'let's add a second to the year' and I was the only one who spoke up against it. Why would they want to add a second to the year? Because it gives them a second longer to hate Bush.
"Look, look, look, look. A leap second is a denial of everything American, of everything good, of everything moral. They're saying we need this second because the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the earth, well this is the no spin zone. So we don't need a leap second. Though I would rather have a leap second than some of these hate-mongers who go around hating even their own ideas! They need to hate their own ideas so much that you have many liberals proposing the leap second, which is an idea that they hate, yet, they propose.
"I am so so so so upset with these people, who actually believe their ideas, yet, I have no hate in my heart. I am a simple guy, who only has my own true beliefs and a few products that are my cornerstone to fight against the leap second poobah. Let me say it aloud: Leap Second, leap second, leap second. Doesn't it sound ugly?
"Please, don't let these Darwinian leap-seconders, who believe that the planets revolve around the sun, who believe that rocks are sedimentary, igneous and stalactites, who are innocent dim-wit believers in a faith bordering on hating everything religious like trees and fruitcake, yet, who don't believe in John 7:12:45:67:89, have their say.
"But you know what I love? Dialogue. Rational dialogue which allows me to say that aliens from a Iraqi loving planet want to abolish Christmas by adding a leap second to the Darwinian anti-God year. Dialogue is what keeps the American system God-loving and anti non-God. It also keeps the anti-God loving non-Iraqi loving insurgent deniers able to voice their hideous so-called opinions over the American loving tolerant airways. And now let's take some calls."
Steve Martin [huffingtonpost.com]
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Re:How did you use yours? (Score:4, Funny)
They used 747s to fly the clocks above the clouds.
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In order to ensure that the the atomic time
No, that's a leap the.
Re:The hard way (Score:3, Funny)
If you have ten second-exact clocks in your house, someone has a very serious issue. If you believe 99,999,999 other households have ten second-exact clocks in their home, someone definately has a very serious issue. Besides the geeky solution is to have all of them synchronized automagically, what are you doing on slashdot?