On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:41:32 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
>
>Be aware that the next leap-second insertion will be at 11:59:59 UTF
>on 30 June 2012.
>
UTF? I don't know the TLA. But I'd say UTC 23:59:59.999..., perhaps
a second later than yours.
And I know we disagree on this, but, from:
http://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/bulletinc.dat
A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012.
The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be:
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 59s
2012 June 30, 23h 59m 60s
2012 July 1, 0h 0m 0s
(At least according to some authorities there is a 23:59:60.)
There's a proposal, recurrently deferred, now until 2015, to
eliminate leap seconds. I'd prefer to see UTC abolished. Let
the physicists use TAI; let the astronomers and IT people use
UT1, smoothed and announced a few weeks in advance.
-- gil
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