[LEAPSECS] Lets get REAL about time.

[Mark Calabretta]

On Tue 2012/01/24 16:23:17 PDT, Warner Losh wrote
in a message to: Leap Second Discussion List <leapsecs at leapsecond.com>


>> In the latter, the second hand would move continuously past 60 to 01

>> second and immediately flick back to 60, thus making it possible to

>> reckon time during a leap second.

>

>Or it could move from 00 back to 59...

>

>And the number of choices here is illustrative of the implementation

>details elsewhere :)


TF460-6 specifies that time during a leap second be represented as,
for example, 23:59:60.7, which suggests to me that the second hand
should move past 60 to "61".

Regards, Mark