REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

Mon Jun 22 14:27:42 UTC 2015

shawn wilson <ag4ve.us at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, what we should do is make clocks move. 99999 slower half of the year
> (and then speed back up) so that we're really in line with earth's
> rotational time.

That's how UTC worked in the 1960s.
ftp://maia.usno.navy.mil/ser7/tai-utc.dat

It causes problems for systems that have a tight coupling between time
and frequency - broadcast, cellular, etc.

Tony.
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