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Cc: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD handles leapsecond correctly
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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 06:17, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-Jan-02 22:10:46 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>
> >Leap seconds are hard and I hate them.
>
> Which of the competing alternatives would you prefer?

I think we should fit gigantic rocket motors around the equator and use 
them to regularlise the earth's spin :-)