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Leaping seconds and looping servers

Leaping seconds and looping servers

Posted Jul 3, 2012 10:28 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Leaping seconds and looping servers by nowster
Parent article: Leaping seconds and looping servers

True, but I doubt it ever happen, if only for political reason. The drift is strongly biaised toward positive leap second, and even if a negative leap second would be necessary due to fluctuation, it is likely it would be merged with the next positive leap second due to the pressure to avoid them.


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