Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120108:11:42:00
Are we short of time? not enough minutes in the day? in june, everyone, everyone in the world, will get one extra second. that's right, one brief second will be added to the world's clocks. use the time wisely, i guess. meteorologist alexandra steele is in for reynolds wolf. why is time getting taxed on to sfwhoifl. >> do you have a -- 2012? >> do you have a minute? i need a minute to explain. in the 1950s atomic clocks were introduced to measure the earth's rotation. some days are actually longer or shorter than other days. so the goal here is to bring atomic clocks and solar time back in syn...