Rob Seaman said: > The leap occurs at midnight UTC on 30 June or 31 December. These > dates apply west of Greenwich, e.g., we saw the leap second in Tucson > at 5 pm on New Years Eve. East of Greenwich it is already the morning > of 1 July or 1 January when the leap second occurs.
I know what you're trying to say, but I'm several hundred metres east of Greenwich and I saw the leap second on 31 December, not 1 January. Which is one more point on the "don't care about mean solar time" side. > Confusion doesn't happen near the IDL since it is just before noon on > the first day of the month on one side of the line or just after noon > on the last day of the preceding month on the other side. Except New Zealand is, I believe, in zone +13 at this time of year. So it was 12:59:60 on 1 January. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, cl...@davros.org | it will get its revenge. http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
