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Re:UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right? by Animats on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @07:01PM (#17183509)
There's "Google time", their approach to leap seconds. 12 hours before a leap second, Google's version of UTC time starts running slightly slow, so that it loses a second over the next 24 hours.[1]

Some Google database systems rely on tight time synchronization to order update events, so they had to have a global monotonic clock.

[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear

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