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Apparently December 2016 was the last time a leap second was inserted, at least that's what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second https://e
by flohofwoe 4mo ago
Apparently December 2016 was the last time a leap second was inserted, at least that's what Wikipedia says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
- NooneAtAll3 4mo agowe were ought to insert a negative leap second, but cowards got too afraid it would break code
- maxnoe 3mo agoNo, the current rules are being relaxed because with the current ones, a negative leap second _might_ happen in the near future. It did not happen yet. No negative leap second that should have been inserted was skipped. See this chart here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUT1#/media/File:Leapsecond.ut1-utc.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUT1#/media/File:Leapsecond.ut... You can see the the positive leap seconds as jumps upward once the graph reaches around -0.5 s. We were never close to reaching +0.5 seconds with a positive trend and we are still relatively far away from that.