Watch these spaces http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h2272: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-2272 for according to Jonathan Hardis as soon as they catch up on their paperwork they'll note that the US has joined the UTC club.
Get ready to party. By strict interpretation of the legal time scale of the US, the count of seconds elapsed here currently agrees with the time_t on a POSIX system with a correctly set clock. Both have been counting mean solar seconds since 1970. The next time that Daniel Gambis makes the announcement we can prepare to celebrate the first legally-occurring leap second in US history, and at the same time watch the POSIX clock diverge from the legal clock. -- Steve Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 University of California Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
