Skip to content

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

Comments

every few millennia

We'll feel awful silly having made any leap seconds if the robots kill us all in the next decade.

More seriously -- all of today's computers and probably all of today's software (not to mention many scientific and governmental institutions) will be gone in 500 years. Does it make sense to plan too far ahead?

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.