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Re:All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second by techdragon on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @09:16PM (#40861971)
They don’t care about that. I mean it’s the opening paragraph…

> I just want to see it. Just once. I want to watch that earthquake ripple through all of global electronic timekeeping. I want to see which organisations make it to January morning with nothing on fire.

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Re:All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second by uoaei on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @09:34PM (#40862035)
Seems like a good dry run for redundancy/resiliency tests in the face of more catastrophic failures such as those that can result from solar storms.
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