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When do leap seconds occur?

Answer

In theory a leap second can happen at the end of a quarter. However since their introduction they have only ever happened at the end of a half i.e. 30th of June or 31st of December.

On these dates when a leap second event occurs the UTC time sequence would be:

23:59:58

23:59:59

23:59:60 (sometimes 23:59:59 is written again)

00:00:00

 


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