Adding leap seconds to UTC

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

From: harvard!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw (Dale Worley)
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 86 14:27:02 est

The leap second would have to be added at the same time everywhere
(about 00:00 "GMT"), otherwise UTC wouldn't be "coordinated", i.e.,
the same everywhere.  If it sounds weird to stick an extra second in a
random hour in Australia, think of what would happen if UTC was
different between Australia and Britain by one second for several
hours of a random day!

Dale

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