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Re: [MacPerl] reverse localtime



At 10:10 AM -0700 5/26/2000, John W Baxter wrote:
>
>I don't know whether the last minute of June 30, 2000 is 60 or 61 seconds
>long, for example, although that one may have been announced already.

I think it would have been, and it hasn't, according to 
<ftp://tycho.usno.navy.mil/pub/series/ser14.txt>

>    --John (and if you get your time from your GPS receiver, it doesn't
>track those leap seconds, either)

Yes it does (if your receiver is using the UTC output of GPS).
According to <http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/gpstt.html>,

>GPS time is not adjusted and therefore is offset from UTC by an 
>integer number of seconds, due to the insertion of leap seconds. The 
>number remains constant until the next leap second occurs. This 
>offset is also given in the navigation (NAV) message and your 
>receiver should apply the correction automatically. As of January 1, 
>1999, GPS time is ahead of UTC by thirteen (13) seconds.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Perl discussions...

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