alt Hacker NewsSystems are absolutely not ready. Leap seconds are a bad idea and negative leap seconds are worse. Just don't do it and let the drift cancel out.
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voxic11 • yesterday at 8:12 PM
Explain why negative leap seconds are worse? Intuitively it seems like normal leap seconds would cause way more issues, or at least not more.
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knorker • yesterday at 7:46 PM
What's worse about negative leap seconds? The "experienced" time by systems will just look like they froze for a second. Added leap seconds are worse, surely, as time goes backwards.
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negative leap seconds aren't too bad. jumping forward a second won't lead to a time loop like jumping back did on several systems (some twice!)