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positive The HN thread is mostly curious and amused rather than alarmed. Commenters dug into why Earth rotation is hard to predict, how leap seconds interact with Unix time and GPS, and joked about the wonderfully bureaucratic language of global timekeeping. — latest discussion,
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  1. Earth keeps UTC steady through December 2026▲ 308 · 243 comments · 4:57