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jcranmer • today at 4:44 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

TL;DR: No more leap seconds. The replacement will not be leap minutes but leap hours.


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layer8 • today at 5:07 PM

…the next which is expected in roughly a 1000 years: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/futuredelt.svg

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krunck • today at 5:07 PM

Am I wrong in interpreting this as just pushing the problem (divergence between International Atomic Time and the rotational speed of the earth) 100 years in the future?

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throw0101c • today at 5:40 PM

> The replacement will not be leap minutes but leap hours.

People have a hard time with leap years, which happen regularly every four years, so I'm curious to know how well a "one-off" event at a basically random time in the future will work.

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