[ntp:questions] Leap second to be introduced in June

Terje Mathisen terje.mathisen at tmsw.no
Fri Jan 16 06:06:52 UTC 2015


David Woolley wrote:
> On 15/01/15 07:56, Terje Mathisen wrote:
>>
>> Did we have a leap second last June? Or did you intend to check for 2015?
>
> Oops.   I did get it right in the dry run, but not in the run I actually
> used:
>
> david at dhcppc4:~$ TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/UTC date -d '30 June 2015
> 86400 seconds'
> Wed Jul  1 00:00:00 UTC 2015
>
OK, so exactly as encoded in the "right" zone info, there is no leap 
second until the table is updated/patched.

Terje

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