[finnh]

That's a long page, but basically the answer is no. We don't randomly have a 61 second minute in "clock" units; instead we have a day that takes 86401 _real_ seconds but only the standard 86400 clock seconds.

By way of analogy, imagine we implemented leap years by slowing our clocks to half speed on Feb 28 instead of adding a Feb 29.

[cryptoz]

> imagine we implemented leap years by slowing our clocks to half speed on Feb 28 instead of adding a Feb 29

Thanks I will imagine this! Too bad we can’t slow the real Earth time down and have a bizarrely slow and long day every 4 years.

[fooker]

Leap hours would be neat!

[petre]

Not if you write code that calculates time.

[firecall]

I guess it wouldn’t matter if the code was calculating time offsets and so on.

But it would matter if I wanted something to take 60mins and then set a start time and an end time.

Dates and timezones are the worst! :-)

[ASalazarMX]

I guess that would still be neat when finished.

[GauntletWizard]

We had one of those last weekend (At least in most of the US)

[ant6n]

In Europe, some weeks before. Cuz why shouldn’t we have a time difference that’s different for a couple of weeks compared to the usual, it’s not like ppl in CET and EST ever have meetings together.