1990 Will Be a Little Late
New Year’s Eve partygoers around the world will have to wait an extra second before ringing in 1990.
Britain’s Royal Greenwich Observatory said Monday that time services across the globe will put back their clocks by one second just before midnight Greenwich Mean Time Dec. 31 to prevent man-measured time from getting out of step with the earth’s rotation.
“Nineteen eighty-nine is a second longer, or, if you like, 1990 will start a little later,” said John Pilkington of the observatory, which measures the earth’s rotation using lasers.
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