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xkcd #3272: Time Change

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All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's leap days. We also skip leap minutes occasionally. I think we've only removed whole years in retrospect.

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Leap year is the term for the year a leap day occurs in. I also don't believe there have ever been full leap minutes, just leap seconds.