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

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Mon Jan 19 00:15:02 UTC 2015


On 1/18/2015 6:04 PM, William Unruh wrote:

> UTC always has 86400 seconds per year.

You clearly don't understand how leap seconds work. You're embarrassing 
yourself now. When there's a leap second, there are 86401 SI seconds in 
that year, that's the whole point. You may also be interested to learn 
that a year with the similarly named leap day has 366 days, not the 
usual 365.

> Note UTC differs from TAI by an interger number of seconds, AND that
> integer changes with the leap second. Ie, it cannot be continuous if TAI
> is continuous.

Nonsense. When there's a leap second, there's a UTC second numbered 
23:59:60, ibid. Both UTC and TAI tick forward constantly, with each new 
second uniquely enumerated.

> TAI is monotonic and continuous. UTC thus cannot be.

Now there's a non-sequitur.




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