| 1. | TAI is also commonly used by systems that cannot handle leap seconds.
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| 2. | In case of a negative leap second, second 16 will be deleted.
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| 3. | Other experimental schemes smear time in the vicinity of a leap second.
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| 4. | :So far all leap seconds have been positive ( added seconds ).
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| 5. | However, could the addiction of a leap second also affect the hardware?
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| 6. | Both IBM and POSIX count up from an epoch, ignoring leap seconds.
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| 7. | Get ready to reset your watches : A leap second is coming.
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| 8. | Which is why we'll add a leap second on New Year's Eve.
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| 9. | The leap second amounts to scientific bookkeeping on a universal time scale.
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| 10. | This resulted in leap second adjustments to keep UTC synchronised with solar time.
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