On 2015-01-26 01:00 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:
"At midnight" is a flexible enough phrase to also handle a second that *finishes* being introduced at the stroke of midnight :-)
I'm sure you know this as well as anyone, but I caution about the casual use of terms this way.
I spent many weeks this year frantically trying to head off exactly this problem in a standards body defining a timing protocol. It had been written to insert Leap Seconds "at midnight", which we know from Rec 460 is not correct. After being called a pest and troublemaker they finally recognized what I was saying, and this led to changes that affected other details of the design, contributing to months of debate and delay in completing the project. It is not so obvious from the fractured standards and documentation how UTC is supposed to work and subtle misunderstandings like that might be avoided if folks were more careful with their terms.
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