Most of us don't need to hope for the best because leap seconds won't trigger bugs in our applications. In my work, I deal with dates and times, but a leap sec

Most of us don't need to hope for the best because leap seconds won't trigger bugs in our applications. In my work, I deal with dates and times, but a leap second would have no consequence. A negative leap second would be interesting, because database records could appear to have been created out of order (a possible problem for many apps), but my apps wouldn't care. There are programmers that have to worry about leap seconds, I'm happy I'm not one of them.