Agreed, but new years eve is a special case for emergency services in particular.
On 2/01/2017, at 2:38 AM, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > Insertion times that are convenient for some could be a major pain for > others. There is no > single “good” time to insert a leap second. You might argue that doing it > while the financial > markets are closed is a good idea. That sort of rules out the middle of the > week. You also > could argue that you do it when everybody is on hand to fix things. That sort > of rules out > weekends. With two simple “rules”, the entire week has been crossed off the > list …. > > If you go back in the archives, you will find significant discussion going on > about dropping > leap seconds altogether. That would indeed eliminate the need to schedule > them. It also > would eventually result in some odd adjustments to local time. > > > Bob > >> On Jan 1, 2017, at 8:07 AM, Andy ZL3AG via time-nuts <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> If so, they should think about adding the leap second on the night of the >> 2nd wednesday of January, or such a time when things are quieter around the >> world. >> >> Do they add the leap second at the same moment in time throughout the world, >> or are the clocks here in NZ running 13 hours and 1 second ahead of those in >> the UK for half of Jan 1st? >> _______________________________________________ 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.
