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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by JdeBP on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:47AM (#24459192)
... unless it's the system clock in Linux, with the hardware RTC set to be interpreted as local time, and one is watching a system boot on a machine that is set up as east of the Prime Meridian (i.e. the hardware RTC is ahead of UTC). (-:

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/600490/5132

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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by dodobirdlord on Sunday September 13, 2020 @01:35PM (#24462506)
Given that Unix time specifically doesn’t handle leap seconds, a system clock is not a clock by the conventional definition.
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