well it sure has been a while, hasn't it?
perhaps not, it depends on whether or not you believe that time actually exists, i don't believe it does.
time is just an invention, a theory if you will. i like to think of it as a ruler designed for measuring actions, such as the one our current time is based on - how long it takes the earth to spin once on it's axis and how long it takes the earth to fully orbit the sun, these numbers were then divided up into sections: seconds, minutes, hours, days and months, months being less accurate as they contain varying numbers of days.
but the findings are not entirely accurate hence the need for an extra day every four years, which i have a problem with...
we know there are 365 days in a normal year and 366 days in a leap year, so by my calculations every 1460 years there is an extra year, and i'm not even a scientist.
this finding has some very severe implications, using this theory i am able to calculate that the actual year is not 2005, but more like 2007, it's not october either, it's more likely to be January, i'd need to do some more precise calculations to tell you the exact date as i'm just working this stuff out in my head right now.
it really is quite interesting when you think about it and opens up a lot of questions about the way our universe really works.
-c