Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
by tinus_hn on Thursday May 16, 2019 @07:02PM
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It would take millennia for such an error to accumulate. Leap seconds are inserted less than once a year and 30 minutes is 1800 seconds.
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
by bloak on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:51AM
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Falsehoods programmers believe about leap seconds: 1. The rate at which leap seconds are inserted will remain roughly constant. [...]
The Earth's rotation is slowing down (by about 2 ms per day per century), so the difference between TAI and UT1 is increasing quadratically, not linearly.