On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:23:00PM -0500, Ben Bennett said: > I imagine that it must happen worldwide at the same time. Plus this > is really a UTC thing (since leap seconds are what make UT into UTC), > most people don't need that much accuracy and don't adjust their > clocks... and anyway, most clocks are not accurate enough for it to > matter.
As an aside, I presume most people have seen this but ... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/30/2317231&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=134 ... apparently for the last 5 years we haven't needed a Leap Second
