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Jan 1 to see leap second

November 15, 2016

A leap second will be added to Co-ordinated Universal Time between 7.59.59am and 8.00.00am Hong Kong time on January 1.

 

Hong Kong standard time, exactly eight hours ahead of Co-ordinated Universal Time, will be delayed by one second.

 

Co-ordinated Universal Time is a stable and even time scale based on the frequency of oscillations in atomic clocks.

 

Leap seconds have been introduced 27 times since the adoption of Co-ordinated Universal Time in 1972.

 

The last adjustment was made on July 1 last year.

 

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