Leap seconds


Did you know that 2009 is one second shorter than 2008? And you thought leap years are cool.

On related news, I find it astonishing that I have to manually set the time on my mac and iphone - and to top it all up, I have a nagging suspicion that both clocks are actually slow.



by datacharmer | Friday, September 25, 2009
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2 comments:

  1. Steve Allen Says: 29/09/2009, 17:24  

    I was under the impression that 2009 is a full day shorter than 2008.

  2. datacharmer Says: 30/09/2009, 00:04  

    Yea, but its the missing second that dramatically ups the cool factor.

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