[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 25, Issue 3

[Jonathan Natale]

Why is this the first *legal* leap sec?  It is certainly not the first
leap second?

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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 20:11:04 -0800
From: Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org>
Subject: [LEAPSECS] counting seconds
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As the furor over counting votes dies down, we can turn our attention
toward the impending leap second and start counting seconds.
In the US the end of the year will bring the first legal leap second.
In Canada things will be even more confusing.

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html

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