Are you feeling more rested this week?  Do you notice your watch running a smidgen fast?  Maybe it’s because of the leap-second added by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on New Year’s Eve.

A few of us may take comfort knowing that our clocks are back in sync with the earth’s relative positive to the sun, and find it reassuring that all the cosmic gears and cogs are once again in perfect alignment.  The rest of us couldn’t care less.

Does it really matter?

Well, yes; it just might.

There are two ways to look at time.  First, as a convenient touchstone for organizing our lives.  Without some universal standard for tracking our days and our hours, imagine the trouble we would have arranging our affairs and interactions.

But you can also make the case that time really does mean something.

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