Rob van der Putten <[email protected]> writes: >Hi there
>Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> I predict that the leap second will be ignored by at least 98% of the >> world! Most people cannot set their clocks to the correct second and >> most would not bother if they could. >> >> The leap second will be important to astronomers, navigators, the NIST >> and a few other people and institutions. >I read that, during the previous leap second, in the countdown to the >new year on BBC TV, the last 'second' lasted two instead of one seconds. It depends. Some people regard the leapsecond as counting 23:59:0 23:59:1 ...25:59:59 23:59:60 0:0:0 while I think the leapsecond standard is actually 23:59:0 23:59:1 ...25:59:59 0:0:0 0:0:0 Ie it occurs on teh first second of the new year, rather than the last second of the old. I assume BBC (and ntp ) follow the former. >Regards, >Rob _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
