[LEAPSECS] UTC Redefinition Advanced

[Hal Murray]

> How many of these systems CURRENTLY properly handle leap seconds?  How

> many of these cell phones and space systems and digital devices "buried

> beneath Antarctic ice" CURRENTLY are built to a specification that a

> minute can contain either 59, 60, or 61 seconds?  Or that when a leap

> second occurs, it occurs at midnight only in the UTC+0 time zone?  (4:00

> PM in the afternoon in California) 


Why is that such a big deal?  At worst, they reboot the system and it gets 
back in sync with the loss of some data.

I think the more important issue would be calculating differences in times 
that straddle a leap second.  (I'm not an astronomer.)

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