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You'll have to wait just a little longer this year for that celebratory kiss
WASHINGTON - Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first ?leap second? in seven 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, the widely adopted international standard, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology said this week.
?Enjoy New Year?s Eve a second longer,? the institute said in an explanatory notice. ?You can toot your horn an extra second this year.?
You'll have to wait just a little longer this year for that celebratory kiss
WASHINGTON - Get ready for a minute with 61 seconds. Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first ?leap second? in seven 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, the widely adopted international standard, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology said this week.
?Enjoy New Year?s Eve a second longer,? the institute said in an explanatory notice. ?You can toot your horn an extra second this year.?
