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........extra second just before midnight on New Years Eve?
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18607

On December 31, 2005 a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at
23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This
corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, when the extra second will
be inserted at the U.S. Naval Observatory. This marks the 23rd leap second
to be added to UTC, a uniform time-scale kept by atomic clocks around the
world. Although you normally don't think about it, for most conventional
uses the "civil" time you use is based on UTC. At the U.S. Naval
Observatory, UTC is determined by averaging the time signals from cesium
beam atomic clocks and hydrogen masers (the last being an improvement over
the tried and true cesium clocks for measuring short periods of time).

Man's oldest clock has always been the Earth. We know it's morning when the
Sun rises, noon when the Sun is overhead, and evening when the Sun sets. The
Earth's accuracy as a clock is good to about one thousandth of a second per
day - more than enough accuracy for most people. However, the invention of
"atomic" clocks, which operate by measuring the resonant frequency of a
given atom - (currently Cesium, Hydrogen or Mercury) - greatly increased
that accuracy, and has now led to the capability at the U.S. Naval
Observatory of measuring time to accuracies exceeding a billionth of a
second per day.

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I guess my wife gets an extra second of a kiss from me. ;-)

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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:41:37 -0500, " JimH" wrote:

.......extra second just before midnight on New Years Eve?
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18607



I guess my wife gets an extra second of a kiss from me. ;-)


I'll need all that extra time to reset the time on my Swiss Army watch!
--
John H

**** May your Christmas be Spectacular!****
*****...and your New Year even Better!*****

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"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 14:41:37 -0500, " JimH" wrote:

.......extra second just before midnight on New Years Eve?
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18607



I guess my wife gets an extra second of a kiss from me. ;-)


I'll need all that extra time to reset the time on my Swiss Army watch!
--
John H

**** May your Christmas be Spectacular!****
*****...and your New Year even Better!*****


You are fast!

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JohnH wrote:


I'll need all that extra time to reset the time on my Swiss Army watch!
--
John H

**** May your Christmas be Spectacular!****
*****...and your New Year even Better!*****


Swiss Army watch?
Wife bought me the Titanium model with rotating bezel for Christmas
1999. I had her pick out the model of her choice this year as my
present to her.
She chose this model.. http://tinyurl.com/76d3x

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"Don White" wrote in message
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JohnH wrote:


I'll need all that extra time to reset the time on my Swiss Army watch!
--
John H

**** May your Christmas be Spectacular!****
*****...and your New Year even Better!*****


Swiss Army watch?
Wife bought me the Titanium model with rotating bezel for Christmas 1999.
I had her pick out the model of her choice this year as my present to her.
She chose this model.. http://tinyurl.com/76d3x


A bit too formal looking for my taste and definitely not what one would
consider in the normal "Swiss Army" watch genre.

Regardless, it is a handsome watch.

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JimH wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message
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JohnH wrote:


I'll need all that extra time to reset the time on my Swiss Army watch!
--
John H

**** May your Christmas be Spectacular!****
*****...and your New Year even Better!*****


Swiss Army watch?
Wife bought me the Titanium model with rotating bezel for Christmas 1999.
I had her pick out the model of her choice this year as my present to her.
She chose this model.. http://tinyurl.com/76d3x



A bit too formal looking for my taste and definitely not what one would
consider in the normal "Swiss Army" watch genre.

Regardless, it is a handsome watch.


Especially when she originally wanted one with an easy to read dial.
The silver hands against the 'mother of pearl' dial doesn't provide the
best contrast...but you know women...what are ya gonna do?
(ps I refused to buy that model with all the little diamonds around the
face at an extra $500.00)
If the extras don't make the watch work any better, they're just excess
ballast.

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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:33:58 GMT, Don White wrote:

JohnH wrote:


I'll need all that extra time to reset the time on my Swiss Army watch!
--
John H

**** May your Christmas be Spectacular!****
*****...and your New Year even Better!*****


Swiss Army watch?
Wife bought me the Titanium model with rotating bezel for Christmas
1999. I had her pick out the model of her choice this year as my
present to her.
She chose this model.. http://tinyurl.com/76d3x

Well, mine's not titanium, but it seems to run OK. It's similar to this:

http://www.princetonwatches.com/shop...xtag&cp2=24071

but I got it at Costco for a lot less money. It's been good on and in the water,
though!

Your wife picked a beauty!
--
John H

**** May your Christmas be Spectacular!****
*****...and your New Year even Better!*****