A leap second will be observed at the end of 2008

Yeah!!!..we got one more second in 2008.

from INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) (SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE)


A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2008.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:



                       2008 December 31,     23h 59m 59s
                       2008 December 31,     23h 59m 60s
                       2009 January   1,      0h  0m  0s
        
The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is:



from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2009 January 1  0h UTC  : UTC-TAI = - 33s
from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice       : UTC-TAI = - 34s

Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December


or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there
will be no time step at the next possible date.