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Re:No leap second will be introduced at the end of December ... by maxnoe on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:31AM (#48856474)
No, the current rules are being relaxed because with the current ones, a negative leap second _might_ happen in the near future.

It did not happen yet. No negative leap second that should have been inserted was skipped.

See this chart here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUT1#/media/File:Leapsecond.ut...

You can see the the positive leap seconds as jumps upward once the graph reaches around -0.5 s.

We were never close to reaching +0.5 seconds with a positive trend and we are still relatively far away from that.

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