Leap second
 

In the little blurb at the beginning of Wednesday's CBC As It Happens,
they mentionned that 2005 would be a second longer. I assume this
means that there will be a leap second at the end of GMT 31 December
2005.

Joel Rubin wrote:

In the little blurb at the beginning of Wednesday's CBC As It Happens,
they mentionned that 2005 would be a second longer. I assume this
means that there will be a leap second at the end of GMT 31 December
2005.

Yes, according to a note on this page that will be the case:

http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/pubs/bul...leapsecond.htm

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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Joel Rubin wrote:

In the little blurb at the beginning of Wednesday's CBC As It Happens,
they mentionned that 2005 would be a second longer. I assume this
means that there will be a leap second at the end of GMT 31 December
2005.

Yes, according to a note on this page that will be the case:

http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/pubs/bul...leapsecond.htm

Wooho, an extra second of sleep!


dxAce
Michigan
USA

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:58:33 GMT, "FDR"
wrote:

Wooho, an extra second of sleep!

Well, I'm not sure if it still matters what with the Global
Positioning System but if you're trying to navigate using accurate
time it helps to have atomic UTC and solar GMT co-ordinated and part
of the co-ordination is that they're kept within 7/10 second of each
other using leap seconds.