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From: philip@beeblebrox.dle.dg.com (Philip Gladstone)
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Subject: Re: Spring Ahead, Fall Behind
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In article <14168@accuvax.nwu.edu> merlyn@digibd.com (Brian Westley
(Merlyn LeRoy)) writes:

>When they insert leap-seconds at the end of the year, does it state
>the time as 11:59:50 ... 11:59:60 ... 12:00:00 ?

A point to note is that the leap second which is inserted (or removed)
is the last second before 00:00:00 *GMT*. I've always wondered how the
change is handled as it occurrs in the middle of the evening for US
people, which is a time when it might get noticed. Over here, the
winter change happens during New Year's celebrations and nobody is
sober enough to care!


Philip Gladstone          Development Lab Europe 
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