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| * Member Since: Sep 2007
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| Don't Forget to Change the Clocks tonight Wait for it: Earth adds leap second tonight Quote:
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| My 401K is now a 201K Member Since: Jan 2003 Location: 33.8683° S, 151.2086° E
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| Quote: I'll stay up to catch it at the exact moment.
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| 24/7 Single Dad Member Since: Nov 2003 Location: Highway to Hell
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| I used to have to do that for the clocks running the VLF radio site in Hawaii |
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| Registered User Member Since: Oct 2006
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| I thought you were going to say change them back to 1775 since the United States doesn't exist anymore. |
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| Registered User Member Since: Sep 2011 Location: Lurking in the background in flat, humid Fl
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| I tried, but I must have blinked and missed it.
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| NOT Politically Correct!! Member Since: Jul 2006 Location: Displaced New Yorker in Southern MD
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| My clocks are always 10 minutes fast! OK 9:59:59 now...
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| In My Opinion Member Since: Dec 2005
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| my clocks are self setting, atomic whatever. they are always on time to the second without me worrying about it. except the stove, the stove sucks, I have been almost a minute late before going by that damn thing.
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| * Member Since: Sep 2007
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| Heard on the news yesterday that there were apparently some systems that did not tolerate the one second change and burped. 'Leap second bug' causes site, software crashes | Internet & Media - CNET News |
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| Yae warsh wif' wutr Member Since: Apr 2010 Location: aggravating my wife one question after another.
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