Wow, that's a pretty bad illustration of leap smearing. I think a much nicer illustration would have been roughly like this (with obvious limitations caused by

Wow, that's a pretty bad illustration of leap smearing. I think a much nicer illustration would have been roughly like this (with obvious limitations caused by the ASCII spacing): Real: true time, showing the 61st second Comp: computer time, only counting 60 seconds not smeared, time counted at regular speed ...--->| |<---... Real 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 00 01 02 03 Comp 54 55 56 57 58 59 00 01 02 03 |<- smearing ----------->| time counting slowed down by 20%