On 2015-01-06, at 10:01, Paul Saers wrote: > Hello friends. A new year and IERS has already sent out a note about a new > leap second to be added. Beloe a C&P from IERS: > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015. > The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: > > 2015 June 30, 23h 59m 59s > 2015 June 30, 23h 59m 60s > 2015 July 1, 0h 0m 0s > > The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: > > from 2012 July 1, 0h UTC, to 2015 July 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 35s > from 2015 July 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 36s > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > This is UTC so that we add one second late afternoon 30 June in USA or > early morning 1 July in Singapore. This is only important for those that > convert TOD timings to real clock. > And IBM provides no way to do that correctly.
-- gil
