Josef “Jeff” Sipek

Today, I found out that there will be a leap second on December 31, 2005. So the time will flow like this:

2005-12-31 23:59:58
2005-12-31 23:59:59
2005-12-31 23:59:60
2006-01-01 00:00:00

Apparently, there are only two possible places for a leap second in a year, June 30 and December 31. Of course these are UTC times, so the leap second will be inserted as 18:59:60 EST in New York, etc.

If you want can’t get to the official annoucement, you can try my mirrored copy.

Let’s leap! Is there a Samuel Beckett around here? :-)