logoalt Hacker News

jon-woodyesterday at 2:21 PM1 replyview on HN

In the UK last Sunday was 23 hours long because we switched to BST, and occasionally leap seconds will result in a minute being something other 60 seconds.


Replies

extraduder_ireyesterday at 5:02 PM

No it wasn't. The country instantaneously changed timezones from UTC+0 to UTC+1 (called something else locally), it was no different to any other timezone change from e.g. physically moving into another timezone.