> On Jan 25, 2015, at 6:15 PM, G Ashton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rob Seaman also wrote: >> Leap seconds are introduced at midnight UTC, not when TAI modulo 86400 > equals zero. > > I would think that midnight UTC is the instant when the UTC time becomes > 00:00:00. I would call the introduced second the one that began at 11:59:60 > and ended one second later at 00:00:00.
The second half of what Rob said is correct for at least some tens of thousands of years. :). Leap seconds are introduced just before midnight UTC, and are properly part of the last day of the month, not the first day of the following month. Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
