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Rollo
5th January 2009, 23:43
Forgive me for going a little daft, but seeing as 2008 closed with the times of 23:59:58, 23:59:59 and 23:59:60 before 00:00:00, am I to assume that there would have been seven pips on the Great and Powerful BBC?

Surely with such a sacred thing as the pips, can they really fiddle with them? Oh BBC what hast thou done?

Kneeslider
6th January 2009, 00:30
On adding a leap second, there are indeed seven pips.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal

veeten
6th January 2009, 01:09
Hey! there's only one Pips... ;) :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Knight_&_the_Pips :up: