Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg?
The pair raised the prospect of a negative leap second being adopted, which they argued would be even harder to deal with than the positive leap seconds that caused the mayhem described above.
Meta's preferred leap second alternative is"smearing" – a practice that spreads the leap second across 17 hours so that systems add the extra second but don't ever have to insert a leap second. As the post explains, smearing is very complex, and those like Meta that practice it can’t easily contribute their work to public network time protocol servers – although Google offersMeta's Obleukhov and Byagowi didn't propose an alternative to leap seconds, but stated that"As engineers at Meta, we are supporting a larger community push to stop the future introduction of leap seconds."But that decision is out of our hands. Instead, it will be discussed some 41.
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