[LEAPSECS] leap second festivities?

[Rob Seaman]

By Sunday morning I meant midnight UTC Saturday.  More generally it isn’t surprising that “weekdays” will mean different things in different cultures, so the question is when during a week is globally least intrusive to introduce an intercalary correction of any sort?  Failing that, when should a global holiday be declared (similar to New Year’s Day) in June or July should any sort of global event need to be coordinated (i.e., timekeeping or otherwise)?

Such a holiday or otherwise blessed period could be useful for checkpointing other global technologies as well.

So, any significant issues noted as yet?  I found that skyping to the WWV phone number worked pretty well and MacOS, at least, incremented ok across the leap second.  Will report on telescope issues if anybody notices any.

Rob
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> On Jul 1, 2015, at 2:07 AM, Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu <mailto:seaman at noao.edu>> wrote:
> Is it too late to get an option E added of simply scheduling “summer" leap seconds on the last Sunday morning in June?
> 
> Depending on when on Sunday you do this, it may still after the Sydney Stock Exchange starts trading on *Monday* morning; or when the Middle East Exchanges are still running.  
> 
> Nasdaq Dubai trades 0600 to 1000 GMT (yes, GMT) Sunday to Thursday.
> 
> DST transitions occur at off-peak times in local time.  A leap second (which I think should continue) will have to be coordinated universally (*U* *T* *C*).
> 
> Could we speed up the Cesium Hyperfine Transition, please?  It might be easier than resolving the Leap Second Debate :-)
> 
> Or we could all move to London?  The UKIP may not like it, but they can shift to Greece, I supoose.
> -- 
> Sanjeev Gupta
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