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I was really caught up in

Richard Day — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:14:30 +0000

In reply to OK, just did some googling,

I was really caught up in this subject!

I recall, even as a child discovering in my daily newspaper that a second had been added to the official clocks!

Without embedding Monty Python for the fifteenth time, we are all located upon a rock that is hurled around the sun in an imperfect ellipse that varies a little with regard to our relation to the rest of the visible universe.

Everything is in flux which means that time itself is in flux.

Glad you liked the link!

OK, just did some googling,

CVille Dem — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:04:08 +0000

In reply to Yay, DD! Loved it as

OK, just did some googling, and am learning all about University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (just kidding). Checking into this "Coordinated Universal Time thing. Well, I learn something new every day! Thanks, DD!

Yay, DD! Loved it as

CVille Dem — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:00:20 +0000

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Yay, DD! Loved it as always. The stuff you talked about re "time" was all new to me; never even heard of "leap second." What is "UTC?"

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday. The happiest part of this whole piece was the part on Vermont. Wow! Made my day.