[LEAPSECS] Celebrating the new year a few seconds late

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Daniel R. Tobias wrote in <5C2B761A.27870.EDCDDD6 at dan.tobias.name>:
 |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 
 ...
 |The same goes for broadcasts of Big Ben ringing in the UK, or 
 |anything other countries may use.

A bit off topic, and not that i can speak for that island, but Big
Ben is silent for some more years due to restoration.  (I have
a twelve o'clock chimes sound file.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)