Leap Second - June 30th, 2015

For those with PICAXE projects using MSF 'Rugby' and other radio time code systems there's an extra leap second to be added at midnight of June 30th, a rare chance to see the time read 11:59:60.

And perhaps the last time as a long running proposal to abolish leap seconds is to be voted on later in the year.

So; just six months to get those PICAXE radio-controlled clocks up and running!

Surely five months (I get an extra second for my birthday!)

hippy said:

.... a rare chance to see the time read 11:59:60.

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Where will any clock be showing a time of 23:59:60 ?.
Won't MSF etc. just stretch the 59 to make a longer second ?.

My clocks will just go to 00:00:00 a second earlier than they should !.

My understanding is MSF actually transmits 60 for the seconds -

www.npl.co.uk/upload/pdf/MSF_Time_Date_Code.pdf

Wonder if Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones will be trying that heist again.

And perhaps the last time as a long running proposal to abolish leap seconds is to be voted on later in the year.

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So lawmakers will simply require the solar system to adjust itself ??

binary1248 said:

So lawmakers will simply require the solar system to adjust itself ??

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Why not? They tried to legislate the value of pi.

binary1248 said:

So lawmakers will simply require the solar system to adjust itself ??

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I'm with you. There's going to have to be another way to accommodate the natural discrepancies between artificial (man-made) time, and the natural order.
It would also mean that over time, international electronic commerce will get out of kilter.

Good luck!

I'm just looking forward to the extra second in bed