Every single clock, even those that are air gapped. Countdown timers lose a minute, stopwatches add a minute. Biological clocks aren’t affected.

  • lordnikon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Interesting so I guess they update the almanac when a leep second is preformed

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      2 months ago

      The GPS ‘time zone’ does not account for leap seconds at all and is currently 18 seconds ahead of UTC. The GPS navigation messages from the satellites do however include the current offset.