Monday, August 29, 2016

Leap Seconds

If you did not know, sometimes, 1 second is added to the day. I am going to say how this effects dozenal clocks.

There are 2 ways a computer can store dozenal time: Integer Hours and Tems, or Dozenal Hours truncated to 4 places. Because of this, there are 2 possible outcomes.

Here are the outcomes:

Sexagesimal

23:59:60

Dozenal, outcome 1

1E;10000

(There are not supposed to be 5 digits)

Dozenal, outcome 2

20;0000

I think i would go for the second one, as long as they change it from 1 second to 6 tems.

However, this problem may not happen for much longer because they are trying to get rid of leap seconds, anyway.

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