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Re: What happened to the leap second?
From: Bill B
Date: 2016 Dec 31, 20:56 -0500

On 12/31/2016 8:38 PM, David C wrote:

Is it midnight local time, or midnight UT/Greenwich time?


> I am feeling grumpy.
>
> It is the 1st January 2017 in zone  -13 (NZ daylight Saving Time).
>
> At 1100 I recorded the time pips on the radio. There were the usual six
> pips.
>
> At 1300, with great excitement, I recorded the seven pips. Or so I
> thought. When I counted there were just six!  What happened to the leap
> second? I am sure that 1300 (Zone -13) is midnight UTC.
>
> To make matters worse there was low cloud and rain outside so I was
> unable to watch the sun jump ahead 0.3' (that from the GHA Sun
> interpolation table).

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