'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year

On 12/23/2016 9:34 AM, Mark Storkamp wrote:
[...]
Your computers clock doesn't know anything about the leap second, so it
will tick over at midnight New Years just as it does every other night.
When it next connects to a time server it will simply update itself to
the correct time as it always does. However, the official NIST clocks
will, as I understand it, go to 23:59:60.

I guess if you live in the GMT time zone, you'll need to throw an extra
'1' into the countdown before cheering and throwing streamers.

Just "be a programmer" and count to zero rather than 1:

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, Happy New Year!

--
Kenneth Brody

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:17:59 -0500, Ken Brody
wrote:

[snip]

Just "be a programmer" and count to zero rather than 1:

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, Happy New Year!

With an attitude like that, you might miss a lot of appointments
(or parties).

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

On 12/30/2016 10:17 AM, Ken Brody wrote:

[snip]

Just "be a programmer" and count to zero rather than 1:

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, Happy New Year!


So "Happy New Year" comes AFTER 0 rather than AT 0.

--
Kenneth Brody



--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity you don't realise
how irritating it was 'til it's gone.

On 12/30/2016 11:38 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:17:59 -0500, Ken Brody
wrote:

[snip]

Just "be a programmer" and count to zero rather than 1:

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, Happy New Year!

With an attitude like that, you might miss a lot of appointments
(or parties).

So you know of some New Year's parties that last for 1 second or less?


Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko



--
If "he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword" holds true, then
jesus the carpenter met his end properly. After all, he was nailed to a
piece of wood, wasn't he?

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:17:59 -0500, Ken Brody
wrote:

On 12/23/2016 9:34 AM, Mark Storkamp wrote:
[...]
Your computers clock doesn't know anything about the leap second, so it
will tick over at midnight New Years just as it does every other night.
When it next connects to a time server it will simply update itself to
the correct time as it always does. However, the official NIST clocks
will, as I understand it, go to 23:59:60.

I guess if you live in the GMT time zone, you'll need to throw an extra
'1' into the countdown before cheering and throwing streamers.

Just "be a programmer" and count to zero rather than 1:

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, Happy New Year!


That should be 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, Happy New Year!

Or perhaps, 1001, 1000, 111, 110, 101, 100, 11, 10, 1, 0, Happy New
Year!