Leap seconds cause chaos for computers — so Meta wants to get rid of them

Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’, on my computer

: ”Almost every time we have a leap second, we find something. It’s really annoying, because it’s a classic case of code that is basically never run, and thus not tested by users under their normal conditions.”blog post published yesterday

“Introducing new leap seconds is a risky practice that does more harm than good, and we believe it is time to introduce new technologies to replace it,” says the company., Meta is not alone in this, and this campaign has attracted support from other tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as heavy-hitters in the international measurement community, like the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and France’s Bureau International de Poids et Mesures .

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