When countdown for the upcoming new year begins come December 31, 2008 midnight, don't forget to add an extra second. The extra second, ordered by the world's nominal timekeeper, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, is required in order to keep the official atomic clocks in step with the world's irregular but gradually slowing rotation, so in an international agreement, it has been decreed that a Leap Second be inserted between 2008 and 2009. Seems new huh? Actually, no. The last Leap Second happened on 2005. And though a leap year sounds cool, I THINK a leap second sounds cooler.
Don't you think so kiddies?
Enjoy the extended last second of two-thousand eight,
and have a frikken great New Year 2009!
Cheers.
