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From: Mills@UDEL.EDU
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Subject: Leaping clocks
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Date: 29 Dec 87 04:32:06 GMT
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Folk,

Q: What time is it DURING the impending leap second scheduled for Thursday?

A: The leap is considered the 61st second of the last minute of the day in which
    scheduled. Thus, the time indicated midway in the leap would be 23:59:60.5.

I challenge anybody to write clean code that would do that trick and compare it
to the code that would produce 24:00:00.5 when given the number of milliseconds
past midnight and the number of milliseconds in any given day (including the
leap). Grumble. If you happen to tickle a fuzzy during the leap, you get the
latter. Life is too short.

Reference NBS Publication 432.

Dave