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DanaC

01-19-2012 06:18 AM

What's More Current Than The Weather? ... Time

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/do-we-reall...p-second-.html

Interesting little debate giong on about the leap second.

Lamplighter

01-19-2012 07:49 AM

First Pluto, now the Leap Second... can't depend on anything any more.

ZenGum

01-19-2012 08:03 PM

You heard about the triceratops, didn't you?

HungLikeJesus

01-19-2012 08:06 PM

I think I was sick that day.

ZenGum

01-19-2012 08:21 PM

Sick? Dude, you were riding it. I've seen the pics!

tw	01-19-2012 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 789103)

First Pluto, now the Leap Second... can't depend on anything any more.

Even neutrinos are appearing before their time. Don’t count on anything any more. By the time it can be counted, it is not longer there. Time to think differently. What was the past is already the future.

Welcome to quantum physics. The future of kids today (quantum physics) was already. So what is current?

Lamplighter

01-19-2012 09:42 PM

Oh wait... One leap second to be added in June,2012, and execution gets 3 year reprieve.

NY Times
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: January 19, 2012

Decision About One Second Is Postponed for Three Years

Quote:

Delegates at an international telecommunications meeting in Geneva
were to decide on Thursday whether to recommend the elimination of leap seconds,
which are occasionally added to the world’s atomic clocks to keep them
synchronized with Earth’s rotational cycles.<snip>

With no consensus among the delegates, officials at the International Telecommunication Union,
part of the United Nations, sent the issue back to a panel of experts for further study.

A revised proposal will be introduced no earlier than 2015.

ZenGum

01-20-2012 05:38 AM

Quote:

A revised proposal will be introduced no earlier than 2015.

This was harder than you might think.

"Chairman, I move that we defer the decision until 2015."

"Anyone willing to second that?"

*meeting winces, stares at their notes...

Lamplighter

01-20-2012 07:40 AM

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