- Programming Leap Year is complicated enough, but it gets worse. Last year wasn’t a leap year, but it contained a leap *second*, a literal extra second that’s occasionally added to the calendar to keep the atomic clock synchronized with the Earth’s rotation. https://www.laserfiche.com/simplicity/leap-year-leap-second-and-other-it-headaches/ 14 comments programming
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- To Keep or Kill? Lowly Leap Second Focus of World Debate - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/science/to-keep-or-kill-lowly-leap-second-focus-of-world-debate.html 24 comments
- Leap-second decision delayed by eight years | Nature http://www.nature.com/news/leap-second-decision-delayed-by-eight-years-1.18855 23 comments
- 'Leap second' added for first time in three years - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33313347 22 comments
- Adding leap second this year expected to cause Internet problems http://phys.org/news/2015-01-adding-year-internet-problems.html 6 comments
- The origin of leap seconds, and why they should be abolished https://qz.com/432787/the-origin-of-leap-seconds-and-why-they-should-be-abolished/ 0 comments
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