Wait just one second!

As the world rings in the New Year today (it's already 2009 in Australia) or should I say tonight, as most folks will do their best to stay up until midnight to celebrate New Year's Eve, word from the keepers of time inform us that 2008 will last one second longer. That's right, the folks at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich (in Greenwich, England) are saying that we need to add one more second to this year so that time will be correct for our future generations. They say that if we do not add this extra second to the year, then in a thousand years, high noon (when the sun is at it's highest point) would occur at 1 PM. Now for sure, most people will not care or be affected by this action, but it does make you think: these people really have some power. I mean, they are changing the clocks which will effect calendars and timepieces for years and generations to come. Now, as usual, not everyone is in agreement. While the Royal Observatory at Greenwich has controlled the world's time since 1972, some people think it's time to move to the International Atomic Clock system, a supposedly more precise system. But here's the real problem, right now, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is controlled by the English, the Atomic Clock is controlled by the French. The English say they do not want time to be controlled by the French! I wonder what Obama thinks we should do? I say, let the people in 3008 worry about it. I'm just ready for 2009 to begin!