[LEAPSECS] Celebrating the new year a few seconds late

[Daniel R. Tobias]

A lot of Americans synchronize their new year celebrations to the 
drop of the ball in Times Square as seen on TV, which means they 
celebrate a few seconds late because digital TV has an inherent delay 
to it (for signal encoding or something... I really don't know the 
technical details). Networks sometimes add a few more seconds to live 
broadcasts to give them a chance to bleep out obscenities; I'm not 
sure whether they do that with New Years Eve shows.

The same goes for broadcasts of Big Ben ringing in the UK, or 
anything other countries may use.

As long as people put up with stuff like that, it's unlikely the 
people on this list will ever make headway against the popular notion 
that one more second plus or minus (as regards the presence or 
absence of a leap second) is no big deal.

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