[time-nuts] Leap second coming...

Mike S mikes at flatsurface.com
Sat Jun 30 10:32:19 UTC 2012


On 6/29/2012 11:15 PM, Said Jackson wrote:
> This is one day not to be flying in a commercial airplane when it
> happens.. Who knows if the gps units crash, if their designers never
> checked mid-year leapseconds..

? GPS uses GPS time, which doesn't have leap seconds. And, it's not like 
this is the first time there's been a mid-year leap second. The last one 
was 1997, so even mass market GPSs have been exposed to them.



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