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by ahazred8ta 846 days ago
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...

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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.

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.

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.