[time-nuts] Leap second coming...

Said Jackson saidjack at aol.com
Sat Jun 30 03:15:15 UTC 2012


This is one day not to be flying in a commercial airplane when it happens.. Who knows if the gps units crash, if their designers never checked mid-year leapseconds..


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On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:45, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:

> 
> 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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