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Happy New Year to everyone.

Enjoy your leap second which’ll give us a 00:59:60 here. Of course, software deals with this phenomenon as graciously as you’d expect:

Movable Type claiming the time to be not real.

January 1, 2006, 0:59

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Comment by d.w.: User icon

There’s some interesting discussion here.

January 1, 2006, 17:12

Comment by ssp: User icon

Thanks for the link, Dave.

While I can imagine a few places where knowing about leap seconds could be critical, I wonder how much sneakily inserting them every now and again matters in the real world.

January 1, 2006, 18:06

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