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Re:2016 will be one second longer by gshubert17 on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:14PM (#13245844)
I believe 6:59:59 will be followed by 6:59:60. See the screen shot I took of a leap second added in 2008.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127045916@N06/31678955582/

Re:2016 will be one second longer by devy on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:34PM (#13245963)
Yep. The extra second is the 60th second. http://earthsky.org/human-world/leap-second-june-30-december...
Re:2016 will be one second longer by op00to on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:53PM (#13246105)
There's a bunch of ways the leap second can be reflected. :59 twice, :60, leap second smearing (adding small amounts of time leading up to midnight). How your particular system reacts depends on the use, how it's configured, etc.
Re:2016 will be one second longer by joeax on Friday December 23, 2016 @05:07PM (#13247467)
That makes sense. I was being slightly facetious, and I think most devices would NTP re-sync after some interval. But it would be cool if my phone did in fact show 3:59:60 (I'm pacific time) and/or analog smartwatch paused on the 59 for two seconds.