9/9/2005

Leaping lizards! Japan has been behind time for years ….so horographers are going to get ahead, hee, hee.

Japanese get head start
….Japan will head one second into the future on January 1, 2006 when it adjusts the high-precision atomic clock, which keeps Japan Standard Time….. The last time the atomic clock had a second added on was seven years ago. Japan is not used to adjusting clocks, being the only major industrialised nation that does not practice daylight savings.

Back in college, we used to have some killer “Leap Second parties. Many of us were work-study assistants at the NISR facilities at Boulder and north at WWV. Since I was a 19 year old student there, I used to love to brag that, “I was a teenage horographer.”

Actually, this leap second adjustment (うるう秒実施日一覧 ) is going to happen worldwide since leap second has not been required since 1998, when dcientists determined that the deceleration of the Earth’s rotation slowed temporarily in the past seven years. The IERS announced in July 2005 that the next leap second will be on 31 December 2005.