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Re:Happy 1700M Epoch Second by deepsun on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:18PM (#38272192)
And it's intentional, so each day has exactly 86400 seconds, even though it doesn't correspond to UTC.

In fact, UTC will change its leap second logic much sooner than Unix time logic, so UTC logic will be more like Unix time.

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Re:Happy 1700M Epoch Second by usrbinbash on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:34AM (#38274891)
> In fact, UTC will change its leap second logic much sooner than Unix time logic, so UTC logic will be more like Unix time.

This. If anyone is interested in a source:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-leap-seconds-...

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