Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!std-unix From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) Newsgroups: mod.std.unix Subject: Adding leap seconds to UTC Message-ID: <6707@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Dec-86 12:00:59 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.6707 Posted: Tue Dec 23 12:00:59 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 21:50:29 EST Organization: IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee Lines: 13 Approved: jsq@sally.utexas.edu From: harvard!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw (Dale Worley) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 86 14:27:02 est The leap second would have to be added at the same time everywhere (about 00:00 "GMT"), otherwise UTC wouldn't be "coordinated", i.e., the same everywhere. If it sounds weird to stick an extra second in a random hour in Australia, think of what would happen if UTC was different between Australia and Britain by one second for several hours of a random day! Dale Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 69