std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (12/23/86)
From: harvard!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw (Dale Worley) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 86 14:27:02 est The leap second would have to be added at the same time everywhere (about 00:00 "GMT"), otherwise UTC wouldn't be "coordinated", i.e., the same everywhere. If it sounds weird to stick an extra second in a random hour in Australia, think of what would happen if UTC was different between Australia and Britain by one second for several hours of a random day! Dale Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 69