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stephen_g on June 29, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Handling Leap Seconds the OpenBSD Way

Apologies for the off-topic pedantry, but bated breath is probably the idiom you are looking for!

angersock on June 29, 2015 [–]

Oh, thank you!

I've apparently been doing that wrong for years. Thanks!

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