[M3devel] leap-second issue with Date.i3

Mika Nystrom mika at async.caltech.edu
Sat Nov 10 21:40:33 CET 2007


hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes:
>On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:33:03AM -0800, Mika Nystrom wrote:
...
>> the moment after popping the champagne corks?  (Ok, well during
>> New Year's Eve in my time zone, but still...)
>
>Does that mean that each time zone, as midnight creeps around the world, 
>will insert the leap second at its own midnight, resulting in time-zone 
>differences of 59 minutes and 59 seconds?

No, I think it happens at midnight UTC... during New Year's Eve
here in California, early New Year's Day in CET.

>
>-- hendrik
...



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