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Re:Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service by irhd on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:52PM (#15813085)
> Spreading it out over some other period

Yes.

They make a second last slightly long for some time period.

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Re:Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service by zaxomi on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:54PM (#15813571)
Or shorter... Leap seconds can be negative.
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Re:Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service by duskwuff on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:20AM (#15813660)
Theoretically, yes, but it's never happened since leap seconds were established in 1972, and it seems very unlikely to happen for quite some time. Chances are that a lot of software doesn't actually support negative leap seconds at all.
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