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		aarong11 on July 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dates and Times in JavaScript – A New API for Date... There was a leap second too, you forgot that one!

timgilbert on July 9, 2020 | [–]

...oh, and I hope you know whether your customer is Israeli or Palestinian!

https://www.972mag.com/the-worlds-only-ethnic-time-zone/

reggieband on July 9, 2020 | [–]

People joke, but I worked on a calendar application (well, it was a time series graph) where a leap second caused a rendering bug.

yxhuvud on July 9, 2020 | [–]

There was this bug in Java related to a leap second that broke all Java servers in the world one summer..

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