# Leap second in October 2026?

**URL:** <https://community.ntppool.org/t/leap-second-in-october-2026/4132>\
**Category:** Server operators\
**Created:** [November 7, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/leap-second-in-october-2026/4132 "2025-11-07T12:24:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Badeand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@Badeand](https://community.ntppool.org/u/Badeand)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/leap-second-in-october-2026/4132/8 "2025-11-07T19:50:27Z")

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> [@Bas](#):
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> Belgian time is sooooo wrong, it’s not funny. We are at GMT +1/+2 but we should be GMT -1! Or at best GMT/UTC.

If you take the longitude of your coordinates, times 4, you get your “correct” local timezone. For Brussels: 4.35 \* 4 = 17.4 minutes

so, UTC+00:17.

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