for everybody who will be celebrating the coming new year, make sure you don’t start (or end) your new year’s countdown early.
the international earth rotation and reference systems service (IERS) has announced that a leap second will be added at the end of 2008, making 2008 one second longer than it should be.
so either start your countdown at 11, or end your countdown at -1, either way…
enjoy the extra long year! (it has both a leap day, and a leap second)