[154294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Sat Jun 30 22:13:09 2012
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 21:13:10 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAHnQ7eKEpmuJY-ZQdOnBkc1wn5C4-Ach0fwf6-G68OA9jJuPYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Paul WALL <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
> Subject: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
>
> Comments?
Addressing the Subject question, _as_asked_ -- "Very well".
*SNORT*
Mechanically, instead of rolling over from second #59 to second #0 of the
next minute, it goes 59->60->0.
The 'why' is to keep terrestrial clocks in sync with celestial references.
