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Re:It’s time to leave the leap second in the past by throw0101a on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @06:52AM (#32236604)
> How long from now are you talking about? Eyeballing it, I think it would take us about a thousand years to get off by an hour?

The Julian calendar being off with regards to leap years wasn't a problem… until it was. And then someone had to fix it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

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