2009 to Arrive Not a Second Too Soon


	2009 to Arrive Not a Second Too Soon

Rashid Malik

12-31-2008 8:32 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d3d4ca6c-c07d-4123-8df7-a17b64d8adac/2E76F703-316D-4B2B-A459-5A600F97BE02/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/081226-ns-leap-year.html" href="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/081226-ns-leap-year.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/081226-ns-leap-year.html"><FONT face="arial">Wait a second. The start of next
year will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone's control. Time will
stand still for one second on New Year's Eve, as we ring in the New Year on
that Wednesday night. As a result, you'll have an extra second to celebrate
because a "Leap Second" will be added to 2008 to let a lagging Earth
catch up to super-accurate clocks.<O:P></O:P></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/081226-ns-leap-year.html"><FONT face="arial">By international agreement, the
world's timekeepers, in order to keep their official <A href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/time_scitues_020430-1.html">atomic
clocks</A> in step with the <SPAN class="grame"><SPAN>world's</SPAN></SPAN>
irregular but gradually slowing rotation, have decreed that a <A href="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/081208-leap-second.html">Leap
Second be inserted</A> between 2008 and 2009.  <O:P></O:P></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/spacewatch/081226-ns-leap-year.html"><FONT face="arial">So at precisely 23:59:60 at
Greenwich, England, on New Year's Eve, there will be a one-second void before
the onset of midnight and the start of the New Year. Wednesday will see the
24th Leap Second that has been needed since the practice was initiated in 1972,
and will be the first in three years.<O:P></O:P></FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2E76F703-316D-4B2B-A459-5A600F97BE02/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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