Hmm, I'm guessing since you are really couting down you would just start at 23:59:51 instead of 23:59:50, so it would still be 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. However if you counted like 50-51-52-53-54-55-56-57-58-59-NEW YEAR, then that would be another story
Btw, I have never been as drunk as I was last night. OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!
Originally posted by Trancer-X
Okay, it's a known fact that we have to tack that extra second to the clock this year. but does that mean that we should really be counting down from eleven, or should we just count down from ten like usual - but repeat the last second when we get to down to one? I haven't heard anyone talk about this so I figured I might as well bring it up.
I rely on the U.S. atomic clock (or www.time.gov) to give me my time. It's so precise!
Jan-05-2006 16:56
Trancer-X
mutatis mutandis
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Shambhala
quote:
Originally posted by stevieboy32808
I rely on the U.S. atomic clock (or www.time.gov) to give me my time. It's so precise!
But it was off by a second. There's no excuse!
Jan-05-2006 17:10
DrUg_Tit0
e^(i*pi)+1=0
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
So after waiting for a fuckin month to get my computer parts repaired I finally got them and now my computer works!! Wooohooo!!!!
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1+1=10
Jan-05-2006 23:15
Trancer-X
mutatis mutandis
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Shambhala
quote:
Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0
So after waiting for a fuckin month to get my computer parts repaired I finally got them and now my computer works!! Wooohooo!!!!
Welcome back!
Anyway, what was wrong with your PC that it took so long?
Jan-05-2006 23:19
Dervish
Your opinion matters.
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Wick, Scotland
quote:
Originally posted by stevieboy32808
I rely on the U.S. atomic clock (or www.time.gov) to give me my time. It's so precise!
yeah but remember the world runs on UK time though
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If you can read this, I'm seriously fucking bored.
Jan-05-2006 23:23
Trancer-X
mutatis mutandis
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Shambhala
quote:
Originally posted by Dervish
yeah but remember the world runs on UK time though
Well, yes and no.
quote:
On 1 January 1972, GMT was replaced as the international time reference by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), maintained by an ensemble of atomic clocks around the world. UT1 was introduced to represent "earth rotation time". Leap seconds are added to or subtracted from UTC to keep it within 0.9 seconds of UT1.
Although civil time, e.g., the Greenwich Time Signal in Great Britain, is now based on UTC, it is still popularly called GMT.
Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as "Zulu time" or Z, is an atomic realization of Universal Time (UT) or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time.
