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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 07:51:38 -0500
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:24:21 +0100, Björn Lundin <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>The bells should ring in the new year, but failed.
>This is the first time a computer controlled the ringing.
>
>Now- I think the program was polling the time,
>and when it polled 00:00:01 - and checked the date,
>it actually found 23:59:60 and concluded that this is the
>wrong day => do not start ringing.
>
>The day after - at 00:00:01 it did the same thing, and
>the bells started to ring in the new year - 24 hours too late...
>
>
>Yes - I speculate - but I don't think leap seconds only affect
>super-duper-time-sensitive calcuations.

	Could be something as simple as cycling from 23:59:59 to 24:00:00
(still not the "new day") followed by 00:00:01 (new day, but not midnight)
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