[LEAPSECS] earth speeding up

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2014-04-15T09:42:20 -0400, Joseph Gwinn hath writ:

> This first negative leap second may end civilization - essentially no

> leap-second handling code is really ready for a step backwards.


I think not.  I think many of the computing systems which fail for
positive leaps are ready for negative leaps.

A negative leap is saying "I missed experiencing some time".  Any time
sharing system should find it routine that a process was asleep while
some time elapsed, and then it wakes up later.

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