Entries tagged on ‘Time’


Mar'07
11

Spring Ahead

Today the clocks here sprang up by an hour to DST - [tag]Daylight Savings Time[/tag]. That means, IST is now 9.5 hrs ahead of EST. Initially I was irked by the thought of decreasing my sleep by one hour, but thanks to my erratic schedule, this change in clocks did not affect me at all […]

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Dec'05
28

2006 just a second away

Another second away!

To make up for changes in Earth’s rotation, scientists are adding a ‘leap second’ to atomic clocks worldwide, thus delaying the start of year 2006 by a second. The atomic clocks showing coordinated universal time, which coincides with winter time in London will read 23:59:60 before moving to 00:00:00.
Leap seconds are added to […]

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