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kind of offtopic: I recently learned google uses a "Leap Smear" instead of using leap seconds. To avoid errors and outages by having a minute with 61 seconds, t
by littlecranky67 5y ago
kind of offtopic: I recently learned google uses a "Leap Smear" instead of using leap seconds. To avoid errors and outages by having a minute with 61 seconds, they just speed up their time on a single day to match that extra second eventually.
- PascLeRasc 5y agoThat’s really interesting, where did you hear that? I’d like to read more if you have anything
- mikehollinger 5y agohttps://developers.google.com/time/smear https://developers.google.com/time/smear :-)
- ed25519FUUU 5y agoI’d you’re using Google’s public timeservers you’re also using leap second smearing. https://developers.google.com/time/smear https://developers.google.com/time/smear