On Tue 2012/01/24 16:23:17 PDT, Warner Losh wrote
in a message to: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs@leapsecond.com>

>> In the latter, the second hand would move continuously past 60 to 01
>> second and immediately flick back to 60, thus making it possible to
>> reckon time during a leap second.
>
>Or it could move from 00 back to 59...
>
>And the number of choices here is illustrative of the implementation
>details elsewhere :)

TF460-6 specifies that time during a leap second be represented as,
for example, 23:59:60.7, which suggests to me that the second hand
should move past 60 to "61".

Regards, Mark


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