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Comment on Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?parent

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I had an issue in a CI pipeline once where clocks on two different machines drifted out of sync, and it looked like an HTTP request went back in time (it had some validity from now until now plus some delta, and the second machine thought it arrived "before now"), validation failed, pipeline failed.

An unusual case, fragile design, but indicative of potential issues with more interesting timekeeping choices.

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