| 41. | The 2015 leap second also affected the Altea airlines reservation system used by Qantas and Virgin Australia.
|
| 42. | They even take into account leap seconds,
|
| 43. | Thereafter there will need to be the possibility of leap seconds at the end of any month.
|
| 44. | The effect of leap seconds on the commercial sector has been described as " a nightmare ".
|
| 45. | Hence the need for an occasional leap second every so often, to make up for lost time.
|
| 46. | In this type of system the Unix time number violates POSIX around both types of leap second.
|
| 47. | So there is no concept of maintaining a history of all the leap seconds that have ever happened.
|
| 48. | The leap second was an unexpected consequence of the 1955 invention of the atomic clock, which revolutionized time-telling.
|
| 49. | Both bits are set to announce an inserted leap second at the end of the current UTC month.
|
| 50. | The NTP packet includes a leap second flag, which informs the user that a leap second is imminent.
|
