[LEAPSECS] rubber seconds in Japan!

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <160D52CAF1094214B83EE1B08D02A539 at pc52>, "Tom Van Baak" writes:


>The idea of speeding up and slowing down ticks to handle leap

>seconds (or other timing discontinuities) is not new. It is one of

>several practical ways to avoid a clock reading :59:60.


And arguably, no more or no less kludgy than simply replaying
a second to cover the "gap".

But there is a big difference in papering over the leap-second
with rubber seconds, and defining the leap second as rubber seconds.

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