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Comment by throw0101c

4 days ago

> …the next which is expected in roughly a 1000 years: https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/futuredelt.svg

Which doesn't seem like that is soon, but time/calendar issues can creep up and then it's a big hullabaloo:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

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layer8  4 days ago

It can be handled like DST changes and/or changes in time zone rules. Software based on the tz database should already be able to handle it.

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