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 Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Yea 
 01 Jan 17 06:22:00 
 
From: Richard Heathfield 
Subject: Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year
 
On 31/12/16 23:34, Ken Blake wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:45:39 -0500, Wally W.  wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:34:05 -0600, Mark Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>> knew it was around that time, from having to deal with that when my
>>> website was on a 32-bit server. IIRC the negative limit is in December 1901
.
>>
>> One of the problems when designing websites in 1901: there were no
>> browsers that supported UTF-8 encoding.
>
>
> Actually, in 1901, there were no browsers at all.
 
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