Why Time Will Stop For a Leap Second
With the advent of ever-more-accurate clocks, keeping good time is becoming surprisingly complicated.
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Five different ways to handle leap seconds with NTP
A leap second is an adjustment that is once in a while applied to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to keep it close to the mean solar time. The concept is similar to that of leap day, but instead of adding a 29th day to February to keep the calendar synchronized with Earth’s orbit...
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