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we were ought to insert a negative leap second, but cowards got too afraid it would break code
by NooneAtAll3 3mo ago
we 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.