On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 08:50:36 -0600, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> wrote:
>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161228213356.htm > >On December 31, 2016, a "leap second" will be added to the world's clocks at >23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This >corresponds to 6:59:59 pm Eastern Standard Time, when the extra second will be >inserted at the U.S. Naval Observatory's Master Clock Facility in Washington, >DC. > Since a leap second is introduced for closing the gap between UTC and TAI, it should be added everywhere around the globe, at the same moment it occurred in Greenwich, England, at Zulu Time, or else clocks around the globe will not be synchronised properly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
