No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026

Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 by throwup238 on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:29PM (#47315810)

> The leap hour will be in 7200 years, around year 9226.

7200 years ago the Neolithic revolution was still in full swing and many of the most famous megaliths like Stonehenge hadn’t even been built yet. The first real state, the Sumerian civilization, hadn’t formed yet in Mesopotamia.

Personally, I’m very comfortable making this someone else’s problems 7200 years from now. If they’re still having basic coordination issues then it’s their own damn problem.

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Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 by refulgentis on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:05PM (#47316267)

"Basic" made me lol :)

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Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 by vmilner on Monday March 09, 2026 @08:39PM (#47317758)

"And so the Y10K problem was born"

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Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 by IKnowComputer on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:20PM (#47318049)

I’d better go brush up on my COBOL

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Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 by tadfisher on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:28AM (#47319382)

Programmer-Archaeologist will be quite a coveted position 300 gigaseconds from now.

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Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 by caymanjim on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:42AM (#47319448)

I just had a Y10K problem. Customer data was using 9999-12-31 23:59:59 as a placeholder value, and our app crashed converting from the customer's timezone to UTC. I learned that Python datetime can't handle Y10K.

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Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026 by heresie-dabord on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:26AM (#47321355)

> 7200 years ago the Neolithic revolution was still in full swing

Older folks at Göbekli Tepe grumbled that climate change wasn't real. As far as they were concerned, the Sumer and Indus Valley kids were playing with fire and didn't know squat. The older generation just couldn't understand the crazy architecture over in Egypt and the slangy "new wave" movement at Salisbury Plain. It always seemed that the shiftless youth there just loitered and smoked and invented new expressions to frustrate communication. And everyone could agree that no one liked their so-called music!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.2-kiloyear_event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Kingdom_of_Egypt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge

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