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Re:Ask HN: How is it that programmers can simply ignore leap... by sla29970 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:33AM (#29944142)
"ignoring leap seconds" is equivalent to "using a time scale that does not conform to UTC". Time scales other than UTC have 86400 seconds in a day. UTC is the exception.
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