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Re:Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from ... by aarong11 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:51PM (#23783668)
There was a leap second too, you forgot that one!
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Re:Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from ... by timgilbert on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:29PM (#23784075)
...oh, and I hope you know whether your customer is Israeli or Palestinian!

https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/

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Re:Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from ... by reggieband on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:31PM (#23785462)
People joke, but I worked on a calendar application (well, it was a time series graph) where a leap second caused a rendering bug.
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Re:Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Dates from ... by yxhuvud on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:47PM (#23785608)
There was this bug in Java related to a leap second that broke all Java servers in the world one summer..
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