The 2016 leap second broke Cloudflare DNS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affected-cloudflare-dns/ … Should’ve used Google’s “leap smear” solution:https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/time-technology-and-leaping-seconds.html …
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Replying to @mathias
The “leap smear” stretches out the leap second over the course of a day, by effectively adding a couple of microseconds to every second.
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This completely avoids leap-second-induced edge cases like `startTime > endTime`.
7:27 AM - 2 Jan 2017
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