Posted AT 12:17 AM EDT on 26/12/05
Before your first kiss of 2006, wait a second
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, one.
Revellers will have to wait an extra second to ring in the new year because a "leap second" is being added to the last day of 2005.
Leap seconds aren't designed to delay partygoers from pouring the bubbly. They are used to synchronize precise atomic clocks with the more variable rotation of the Earth.
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