Happy 2009, Everyone! We brought in the new year with coverage of Times Square by NBC. After having mentioned in a previous post how we would have a leap second this year, NBC in fact brought it up, and then didn’t show the clock going to 23:59:60. Booo!!!
I wish you and yours a much happier and a healthy 2009! Many changes are coming to all of our lives. There will be a new administration in the White House, and with it new priorities, and perhaps a new discussion about how we can all make our lives better.
Maybe we will also see new inventions, and the rise of new artists. We will see the new Harry Potter movie, with any luck. And we’ll see new places. Although who knows where, just yet.
Actually, the leap second occurred earlier in the day at 23:59:60 UTC, so it would not (and should not) be shown at midnight EST in New York; in theory the clock that drives the NYC ball would already have been adjusted to take the leap second into account. The leap second takes place at a single epoch; it is not applied at local midnight in each time zone.