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Re:Parquet: More than just “Turbo CSV” by piperswe on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:02AM (#35435297)
A bit of an aside: by 2035, UTC will be a static offset from TAI, with the addition of leap seconds being phased out
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Re:Parquet: More than just “Turbo CSV” by spenczar5 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:09AM (#35435338)
That will be a wonderful change. Unfortunately we will still have to deal with leap seconds retrospectively, but it is certainly a step forward, and it will be nice to have a static list of historical leap seconds rather than all computers everywhere polling IERS every month or two.
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