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Reword Leap Second Blurb
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=head1 Future Leap Seconds
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Perl 6's methods that involve knowledge of leap seconds do not
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make any guesses for leap seconds in the future and only use the already-known
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leap seconds. This means you can get different results, depending on the
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The methods that involve knowledge of leap seconds always assume
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that there will be no further leaps after the last leap second
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that the implementation knows about, which may not be the last
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leap second that has actually been scheduled.
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This means you can get different results, depending on the
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compiler version you're using. For example, the December 31, 2016 leap second
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was announced in July and shipped with Rakudo 2016.07, so 2016.06 and earlier
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releases won't know about it:

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