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Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?

8 points by Asmod4n

by wmf

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Systems 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.

by Bender

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Google's proposal is a smear. [1] Most time servers do not use smear. No idea what behavior it may introduce in places where sub-second time is important. Curious if all these bugs [2] were fixed specifically to deal with going backwards.
[1] - https://developers.google.com/time/smear
[2] - https://rivassec.com/leap-second-chaos-2012.html

by d00d0ff000

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NTP.
By any other standard, most manually set clocks are up to a full minute off all the time.

by al_borland

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If we have positive and negative leap seconds, why are we doing anything at all? 1 second forward, just to go 1 second back 10 years later…

by rezvovmobile

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