[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Dec 31 03:08:33 EST 2008


In message <20081230.190100.-1916658631.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" write
s:


>http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/general/enc-g.htm

>

>>> Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

>

>>> A 24-hour time keeping system whose hours, minutes, and seconds

>>> represent the time-of-day at the Earth's prime meridian (0=B0

>>> longitude) located near Greenwich, England.


Notice the "near": the 0° meridian no longe passes through the
transit instrument there.

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