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U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds
blacklite001 writes "Not content with merely extending Daylight Savings Time, the U.S. government now also proposes to eliminate leap seconds, according to a Wall Street Journal story. Their proposal, 'made secretly to a United Nations body,' includes adding 'a "leap hour" every 500 to 600 years.'
Hey, anyone remember the last bunch of people to mess with the calendar?"
like this actually helps to fix an already-broken calendar. There are many alternatives but legislators like to pull these stupid stunts to avoid actual real decisions.
insecurity asks the wrong question irritation gives the wrong answer
You do not even have to add seconds, just stretch the last few seconds on those computers. That is done all the time by programs as ntp, and it affects nobody. That in reality there has been a leap second, and the real clock has a slight programming problem, is not a big deal to anybody. That clock is an independent object which does not control any other real objects (except ntp, which will just ignore second 61 as an error, and wait for a correct time to come by, which will come a few seconds later).
The US is looking for problems where there are none.
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