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<p>I'm glad that these zeptoseconds weren't widely published in the
media. <br>
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<p>Do you remember the fears of some people when we moved from 1999
to 2000? <br>
</p>
<p>When the railroads decided to create time zones, so that the
turning of the earth would no longer factor into arrival times --
a train leaving New York at 1 PM, traveling 36 hours wouldn't
arrive wherever the hell it could go in 36 hours - at 1 AM local
time. Depending on where the trip ended, local time wouldn't be 1
AM - it probably would have been more like 11 PM or earlier. The
adjustment would have taken care of this discrepancy. At the time
that it was announced, and before it happened, there were
supposedly reports of people predicting the end of the world. <br>
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<p>Who knows what would have happened if that extra second made it
into popular thinking? (I hope my atomic clocks and phone know how
to adjust for that extra second).<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/31/2019 3:33 PM, Phil Shapiro via
Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
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<div style="clear: both;" data-mce-style="clear: both;"> I
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<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, December 31, 2019 11:19:37 AM<br>
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<div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">New Year, if you celebrate
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here clock with the Jewish New Year, and some with the Winter
Solstice. <br>
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