[time-nuts] Leap second coming...

[Hal Murray]

billpow at bellsouth.net said:
> Does the leapsecond get added just once (GMT  time zone) or does it happen
> in a staggered fashion at the same hh:mm:ss within each timezone? 

The leap second gets added to UTC.

I don't know how Windows works, but most Linux/Unix systems keep track of 
time in UTC and convert to local time using the appropriate time zone.

There is a wonderful package that keeps track of all the time zone data.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

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mikes at flatsurface.com said:
>> I think 23:59:59 UTC is 16:59:59 PST.  UTC is 7 hours earlier than PST.
> For a time-nuts list, there sure seems to be a lot of confusion. He was  off
> a day, you're off an hour. 

Sigh/blush.

I prefer to think of it as being off one character.  (or two since I made the 
same error twice)

Thanks for catching that.



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