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From: michael@kjorling.se (Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?=)
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 23:19:35 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] Leap Second
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On 24 Dec 2016 10:08 +1100, from dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
> Let me be the first to say that the International Earth Rotation Service 
> has announced that there will be a Leap Second inserted at 23:59:59 UTC on 
> the 31st December,

I told a coworker about leap seconds the other day, in the middle of
discussing software that doesn't understand 24:00:00 as a time of day.
For a while, I believe he thought that I was pulling a prank on him.

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Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se
                 “People who think they know everything really annoy
                 those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup)