A lot of Americans synchronize their new year celebrations to the drop of the ball in Times Square as seen on TV, which means they celebrate a few seconds late because digital TV has an inherent delay to it (for signal encoding or something... I really don't know the technical details). Networks sometimes add a few more seconds to live broadcasts to give them a chance to bleep out obscenities; I'm not sure whether they do that with New Years Eve shows.
The same goes for broadcasts of Big Ben ringing in the UK, or anything other countries may use. As long as people put up with stuff like that, it's unlikely the people on this list will ever make headway against the popular notion that one more second plus or minus (as regards the presence or absence of a leap second) is no big deal. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
