[ahazred8ta]

We've already discussed the Leap Smear, where clocks run 0.0012% slower for a day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047714

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[zokier]

And inevitably there is also Leap Unsmear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22223591

By Google. Who started this whole trend of leap smearing in the first place.

[tinix]

Google didn't start this... It's standard practice to speed up or slow down the clock during transition in ERP systems.

VAX/VMS are way older than Google.

[ahazred8ta]

Actually, before 1972 they would run the radio time signals several parts per million fast or slow to keep in step with the earth's rotation.