Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year

["Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>]

On 2017-01-13 13:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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)
> 

Yes- but suspect that it only happened at leap-second day, and not
any other day...

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Björn