[LEAPSECS] Google, Amazon, now Microsoft

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 31 May 2015 at 19:33, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> Most likely, at some random time after the leapsecond, your clock
> steps a second.

...which is basically how most computers deal with time 
synchronization, excepting the minority that actually attempt 
continuous high precision and accuracy; the computer's clock, not all 
that accurate a timepiece, drifts off from external standards within 
the period (hours, days, weeks) between synchronizations, and has to 
step a few seconds one way or the other to catch up (possibly 
smoothed out to prevent discontinuities that harm processes in 
progress); the leap second, if any, is lost in the noise.

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