New Year's Day 2006 delayed by a second.

New Year's Day 2006 delayed by a second. :

"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."

Well, you have a second longer to do whatever you wish before you dish out all those big , sloppy New Year's Eve kisses. The scientists are going to add a leap second to our world atomic clock so it's right!! How would we know??? The first leap second was added in 1972 and they have never had to take away a leap second. These totally precise time measurements aren't needed by normal humans. They use them at he Olympics and sound terribly technical and they are also needed for high speed communications systems. Reminds me of Shot in the Dark where the wernderfull Inspector Clouseau and ees erfsiderrr , Hercule, tried to synchronise their watches and they kept stopping and Hercule ended up having to count 5 minutes out loud before he switched off the electricity. We've come a long way since then! But I shall have a mental image of these people with French accents trying to synchronise their ertomic clicks at ze verry stroke of ze o'clerk!!