[LEAPSECS] Happy New Year....

[Daniel R. Tobias]

It just reached midnight here in the U.S. Eastern time zone... the 
time counting toward midnight on ABC's New Years Rockin' Eve didn't 
show a leap second (I think somebody earlier on this list claimed 
those shows went "58-59-LEAP-00", but this one didn't), and of course 
was correct here since the leap second was hours ago.  I'm not sure 
what time source Times Square and ABC sync to; it was a few seconds 
off from my computer and my watch, both of which supposedly keep 
synced regularly through UTC time signals.

Anyway, we're past the leap second without planes falling from the 
sky or, as far as I know after seeing the 11:00 newscast, people 
dropping dead from horrible leap-second-related accidents, so I think 
the hyperbole of people on this list who say "Leap seconds will KILL! 
 Think of the CHILDREN!" are as overblown as the Y2K fearmongers 
were.  Meanwhile, the good old leap YEAR had a victim in the 
Micro$oft Zume players, so are we going to see calls to abolish leap 
days because programmers get them wrong, so all years should just be 
365 days long and it doesn't matter if the dates of the year rotate 
through the seasons... the Muslims deal with it in THEIR calendar, 
after all.

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