Didn't see this earlier, or would have included it in my initial reply:
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Originally Posted by EX
...and that we would have to add one second to each leep year ( I think there would be more problems then that)
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Problems? Like what?
Where timekeeping is concerned,
This article describes the situation rather well:
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The change caused by the Indian Ocean quake, at just a few millionths of a second, is too slight to need correcting, says Tom O'Brian, head of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology's Time and Frequency Division in Boulder, Colorado, which runs an atomic clock.
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Originally Posted by EX
however yea it did shift, I seen it on two diffrent new's sources.
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Simply because it's on the news doesn't always make it correct.
Where science coverage is concerned, the media makes regular mistakes, and there have been many such discussions here in the past. It's really unfortunate, since such instances misinform rather than educate the public.
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Originally Posted by EX
Obv if somthing really bad was going to happen the gov wouldnt tell us about it as there would be riot's in the streets but yea ive seen it in the news twice.
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This seems to be a recurring misconception. If this were the case, we woudn't have a number of governmental agencies striving to keep the public informed about hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, asteroids, etc. The amount of public information existing spanning these and a number of issues is quite indepth, and readily available to anyone interested. There's simply no evidence that the government would deliberately conceal significant things from the public, and doing so would actually contradict what's in their best interests (an informed, prepared populace).