On Jul 8, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Zefram wrote: > Keith Winstein wrote: >> Around MIT we have a tradition of trying to do a "shot" of alcohol >> exactly within the leap second. > > That certainly addresses the problem of what kind of celebration can > actually fit into a single second. All I did during the second was > to send a mail message (to this list, accurately timestamped), which > isn't very celebratory. A friend of mine has suggested that one should > celebrate a leap second the NTP/Unix way, by repeating whatever one did > in the previous second (e.g., stutter if speaking), but I don't think > he's ever actually tried it.
I know that my lighter works, since I was starting a fire for a BBQ at the leap second. Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
