From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 10:08:09 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Leap Second Message-ID: 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, due to the earth slowly slowing down. It's fun to listen to see how the time beeps handle it; will your GPS clock display 23:59:60, or will it go nuts like my last one did (I had to power cycle the thing)? My recording of the last one: horsfall.org/leapsecond.webm . -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."