Just to set the standard. There is no "during" a negative leap second.
A positive leap second proceeds as 23:59:59 23:59:60 <--- second added here 00:00:00 A negative leap second proceeds as 23:59:58 00:00:00 <--- whoops! second 59 is gone!!! Those systems that "smear" leap seconds over a 24 hour period will presumably just smear in the reverse direction. It would not surprise me at all if the liquid outer core keeps on its slowdown and a negative leap second would need to be scheduled sooner or later. Regards Marshall Eubanks On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 11:35 AM Matthew Huff <mh...@ox.com> wrote: > > True, > > But it's hard enough to get developers to understand the need to code for 61 > seconds in a minute, and now they would need to code for 59 seconds as well. > > If time systems simply skewed the time so that 60 seconds actually just took > 61 seconds or 59 seconds, there would be other issues, but coders wouldn't be > involved. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+mhuff=ox....@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Stephane > Bortzmeyer > Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM > To: Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> > wrote a message of 32 lines which said: > > > General press loses its *mind*: > > Indeed, they seem not to know what they write about. "atomic time – the > universal way time is measured on Earth – may have to change" They don't even > know the difference between TAI and UTC. >
