[time-nuts] new year crashes

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Jan 1 13:27:58 UTC 2017


time-nuts at febo.com said:
> Do they add the leap second at the same moment in time throughout the world,
> or are the clocks here in NZ running 13 hours and 1 second ahead of those in
> the UK for half of Jan 1st? 

It's added at the end of the last day of a month, UTC.

That makes if 4PM local time in California, a convenient time for watching 
toys.
 
Leap seconds at the end of June could happen at inconvenient local times.


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