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From: jeh@crash.cts.com (Jamie Hanrahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Times and Time Zones
Message-ID: <2043@crash.cts.com>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 17:24:58 EST
Article-I.D.: crash.2043
Posted: Tue Nov 24 17:24:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 07:40:00 EST
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Reply-To: jeh@crash.CTS.COM (Jamie Hanrahan)
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Organization: CMKRNL Press, San Diego, CA
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Keywords: leap second
Summary: Contender for least useful message of 1987

Speaking of time corrections -- those of you who want your VAXes to keep
strictly accurate time should plan to set their clocks ahead by one second
at 31-Dec-1987 23:59:59.00 .  Of course, if you have a WWV receiver updating
your clock, the correction will occur automatically.  This "leap second" is
being added to CUT to compensate for the slowing of the earth's rotation; it
is the 14th such adjustment since 1972.  (From _Air & Space/Smithsonian_, 
a bimonthly magazine published by the National Air and Space Museum of the 
Smithsonian Institution.)