Happy New Year to all three of my blog readers!  (…you know who you are)

For today’s bit of esoteric knowledge, last night you may have noticed that we did not have a leap second adjustment this year.  It turns out that man’s timekeeping has gotten more accurate than nature’s (“mean solar time”, the Earth’s rotation is slowing), and there’s a multi-year international debate about what to do about it.

See Wikipedia for the details.