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pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”clocksecond.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/clocksecond.jpg” width=”400″ height=”265″ class=”mt-image-right” style=”float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;” //span/p pWe all know that 2008 was a leap year but you may not know that it was also a year when a ‘leap second’ was added just before midnight to atomic clocks worldwide./p pThe official countdown to the new year went “57, 58, 59, 60, 00″, with ’60’ representing the extra second, which is necessary in order to compensate for the earth’s erratic rotation. /p pbr / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a9b602/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=1 Second Was Added To 2008 To Cope With Global Changelink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2009/01/01/1_second_was_added_to_2008_to.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=1 Second Was Added To 2008 To Cope With Global Changelink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2009/01/01/1_second_was_added_to_2008_to.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588764574/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44676610/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588764574/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44676610/a2.img” border=”0″//a