Earth's time lords make new year wait a second

The Times December 28, 2005 (from James Bone in New York)

WAIT just one second before you break into song with Auld Lang Syne. 2006 is arriving late. (we like this New Year already....)

This year’s countdown on December 31 should go: “3-2-1-1 . . . Happy New Year!” The world’s timekeepers have decreed that we should add a “leap second” on the stroke of midnight to resynchronise our clocks with astronomical time.
 

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