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Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)

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[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 5 months ago

If I remember correctly, they're updating the standards to allow for more deviation between UTC time and "actual time". They'll likely replace leap seconds with a leap minute that happens much less frequently, implemented by spreading it across the whole day, similar to the leap second workaround I mentioned.