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Old 26th July 2022
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Default Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds

From https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/26/leap_seconds/
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Meta's engineering team has proposed doing away with leap seconds.

Time Lords at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service occasionally decree to add a leap second – usually a 3601st second in an hour – to reflect the changing speed of the Earth's rotation and ensure that our measurements of time remain accurate.

But leap seconds are surprisingly hard for computers to digest, as was amply demonstrated in 2012 when the lack of allowances for leap seconds in the Linux kernel caused glitches galore. Another leap second, in 2015, coincided with similar issues.

A 2016 leap second gave Cloudflare some grief.

The International Telecommunications Union will debate doing away with leap seconds in 2023.
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