Adrian Chadd wrote: > This begs the question - how the heck do timekeepers and politicians get > away with last minute time changes? > > Surely there's -some- pushback from technology related interest groups to > try and get more than four weeks warning? :) ? Notice for the leap second was issued on July 4 2008. http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.36 Nick