On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:25:13 -0800, "A.Pismo Clam"
wrote:

U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20392-5420 July 27, 2005 No. 69
TIME SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT SERIES 14 UTC TIME STEP



1. The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS)
has announced the introduction of a time step to occur at the end of
December, 2005.

2. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) will be retarded by 1.0s so that the
sequence of dates of the UTC markers will be:

2005 December 31 23h 59m 59s

2005 December 31 23h 59m 60s

2006 January 01 0h 0m 0s

Get this on tape. Tell the Grand Kids.