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klodolph on Dec 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making every (leap) second count with our new publ...

I wonder how many clients handle that correctly. How many log files will have timestamps at "23:59:59.1500" instead of "23:59:60.500"? If you are going to break APIs you might as well make a new one instead.

And if you replace a simple API with one that requires distributing leap-second tables…

creshal on Dec 2, 2016 [–]

> And if you replace a simple API with one that requires distributing leap-second tables…

Not much worse than the distributed time zone tables we already need to update thrice a year. At least leap seconds aren't decided on by politicians.

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