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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by masklinn on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:24PM (#8840212)
> or maybe we can just fall back to a 2011 version that had a 15 second offset.

Won't the new offset be 17s? The offset would only diminish if a negative leap second was enacted which has yet to happen.

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Re:A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of J... by olympus on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:39PM (#8840995)
I must have misread the article. I thought a positive offset was different from all the other ones. In that case, it's still a new manual version, but much less unusual.
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