[LEAPSECS] any other parties?

[Warner Losh]

On Jul 8, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Zefram wrote:


> Keith Winstein wrote:

>> Around MIT we have a tradition of trying to do a "shot" of alcohol

>> exactly within the leap second.

> 

> That certainly addresses the problem of what kind of celebration can

> actually fit into a single second.  All I did during the second was

> to send a mail message (to this list, accurately timestamped), which

> isn't very celebratory.  A friend of mine has suggested that one should

> celebrate a leap second the NTP/Unix way, by repeating whatever one did

> in the previous second (e.g., stutter if speaking), but I don't think

> he's ever actually tried it.


I know that my lighter works, since I was starting a fire for a BBQ at the leap second.

Warner