UTC to retain leap second at least until 2023
November 23, 2015
The ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15), in session in Geneva Nov. 2-27, has decided that further studies are required […]
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The ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15), in session in Geneva Nov. 2-27, has decided that further studies are required […]
“Time waits for no one,” Mick Jagger lamented in song when he turned 30. But tonight, on the […]
The world’s clocks will be adjusted by one second on June 30, when a leap second will be inserted […]
A leap second is scheduled to occur on June 30, and most affected industries are taking steps to prepare. Now […]
The coming leap second on June 30 sounds as scary as the (turns out not-so-scary) Y2K bug. But the […]
Once again we are going to adjust the world’s clocks by one second. This time it will happen on June 30, when we insert another leap second in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the standard international time scale. In theory, all UTC clocks should insert a second labeled 23h 59m 60s (the leap second) following one labeled 23h 59m 59s UTC. This is equivalent to having all of the clocks in the world stop for one second at that time. Are you ready for it?
During preparation of playback scenarios for the upcoming leap-second event taking place in June, engineers at Racelogic identified […]
A leap second will be introduced this year at 23:59 on June 30. This phenomenon comes around periodically and is necessary for keeping UTC in line with the Earth’s slowing rotation. Although it will pass unnoticed by most, it has implications for anyone involved in the development of GNSS-enabled devices. For some, it can be the cause of a major headache.
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