| 11. | Unlike GPS, the GLONASS time scale implements leap seconds, like UTC.
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| 12. | It never generates a time that is during a leap second.
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| 13. | To keep in sync, we need about one leap second every 18 months.
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| 14. | The given example makes it evident that leap seconds are ignored.
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| 15. | Historical leap seconds are treated as if they did not exist.
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| 16. | The " leap second " is needed because the Earth's spin is slowing.
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| 17. | Without leap seconds, sunrise would come at noon 10, 000 years from now.
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| 18. | However, where leap seconds occur, such calculations give the wrong answer.
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| 19. | The GPS-UTC offset field can accommodate 255 leap seconds ( eight bits ).
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| 20. | How is my bedside quartz alarm clock going to assimilate a leap second?
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