A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015

Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by olympus on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:15PM (#8840170)

This really messes with some of the stuff I do at work with test instrumentation since we use GPS time in the field but our computers use UTC. We had a problem late in 2014 when one of our instrumentation techs was using an old instruction manual and he was converted his data using a 14 second offset between GPS time and UTC, instead of the correct 16 seconds. Now we'll have to issue all new instruction manuals to the technicians-- or maybe we can just fall back to a 2011 version that had a 15 second offset.

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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by nicky0 on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:54PM (#8840417)

Write in the instruction manual "The number of seconds offset is shown on the web page: <insert address of your updated page>"

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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by masklinn on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:24PM (#8840212)

> or maybe we can just fall back to a 2011 version that had a 15 second offset.

Won't the new offset be 17s? The offset would only diminish if a negative leap second was enacted which has yet to happen.

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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by olympus on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:39PM (#8840995)

I must have misread the article. I thought a positive offset was different from all the other ones. In that case, it's still a new manual version, but much less unusual.

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