Photo: New Orleans, LA, October 2000

The Leap Second

December 31, 2005 | Science

Jamie Zawinski brings us the important details you need to know about tonoght's leap second. Live it up, there's an extra second in our lives today!

(Very geeky) update: How the leap second propagated via the Network Time Protocol the keeps all the world's computers, probably including yours, in sync.

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