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Re:All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second by bee_rider on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @11:28PM (#40862490)
We could build it into daylight savings time. Instead of jumping an hour, we announce what the jump will be every year.
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Re:All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second by rawling on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @12:50AM (#40862812)
Not everyone's jumps happen at the same time (or ever).
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Re:All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second by marcus_holmes on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @04:16AM (#40863854)
We already have non-integer timezone differences. We could allow for leap seconds in that. Europe's timezone could be UTC+2:00:01 while the UK is still UTC+00:00:00
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Re:All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second by lmm on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:18PM (#40972330)
That has all the same legal difficulties as removing leap seconds from UTC (indeed it sounds like you would remove leap seconds from UTC).
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