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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by alistairSH on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:17PM (#32231675)
And, by some accounts, every time we do, auto deaths and other bad things increase for some period after the change. Not to mention the weeks of bitching on either side of the change about how bad/great the time change actually is.
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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by staticassertion on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:25PM (#32231754)
One second every thousand years.
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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by jefftk on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:40PM (#32231911)
Do you mean one hour?
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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by staticassertion on Monday July 25, 2022 @07:44PM (#32232456)
Yeah, one hour. Whoops.
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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by throw0101a on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @06:59AM (#32236659)
> Yeah, one hour. Whoops.

I think your comment is a precursor to what would happen if we tried to get a one-off event right…

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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by staticassertion on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @02:42PM (#32242192)
Right I'm sure we'll forget.
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