This is one day not to be flying in a commercial airplane when it happens.. Who knows if the gps units crash, if their designers never checked mid-year leapseconds..
Sent From iPhone On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:45, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] said: >> Does the leapsecond get added just once (GMT time zone) or does it happen >> in a staggered fashion at the same hh:mm:ss within each timezone? > > The leap second gets added to UTC. > > I don't know how Windows works, but most Linux/Unix systems keep track of > time in UTC and convert to local time using the appropriate time zone. > > There is a wonderful package that keeps track of all the time zone data. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database > > ---------- > > > [email protected] said: >>> I think 23:59:59 UTC is 16:59:59 PST. UTC is 7 hours earlier than PST. >> For a time-nuts list, there sure seems to be a lot of confusion. He was off >> a day, you're off an hour. > > Sigh/blush. > > I prefer to think of it as being off one character. (or two since I made the > same error twice) > > Thanks for catching that. > > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
