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knorkeryesterday at 7:46 PM1 replyview on HN

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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gmuslerayesterday at 8:14 PM

Suppose being charged by time used to run your tasks. Then your task takes -1 second, you will be charged zero, 1 second, or 18 quintillon seconds?

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