[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 25, Issue 3

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <61767D4BE247724E8A1A8932B2B1B3DA06A5E1AD at emailwf1.jnpr.net>
            "Jonathan Natale" <jnatale at juniper.net> writes:

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

: leap second?


It is the first leap second that's been encountered since the US
officially adopted UTC.  Until recently, the official time of the US
was mean solar time.  However, it isn't quite that simple, since it
was mean solar time, as interpreted by the Secretary of Commerce,
which delegated it to NIST/NRO/etc who realized it with UTC since the
1980s at least...

I'm not sure that in this scenario, one can really say that the
elapsed time is different between the old system and the new...

Warner


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: Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 20:11:04 -0800

: From: Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org>

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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.

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

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