Why, yes, I can. I just happened to find an extra one floating around here.<\/p>\n
The International Earth Orientation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) has announced a leap second.<\/p>\n
A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008.
\nThe sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:<\/p>\n
2008 December 31, 23h 59m 59s
\n 2008 December 31, 23h 59m 60s
\n 2009 January 1, 0h 0m 0s<\/p>\n
The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:<\/p>\n
from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2009 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = – 33s
\n from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = – 34s<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The proud parents had previously stated they didn’t care whether the leap second were added or removed, just that it had all of its fingers and toes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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