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by kasey_junk 4001 days ago
And yet all of the major exchanges have mandated down times that even small e-retail operators would kill for.

This thread has reached sort of silly proportions. Of course electronic trading impacts most people's lives even if they don't want it to, but in reality the markets are largely self correcting at this level, so even if there is some oddity associated with the leap second it likely won't have long term (or maybe even observable) impact on the wider world.

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Agreed on all points!