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Re:Some Notes About Time by sopooneo on Saturday January 19, 2013 @11:55AM (#5083874)
I'm a noob. How can two equal timestamps represent different times? Or do you just mean as presented in different timezones?
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Re:Some Notes About Time by albertzeyer on Saturday January 19, 2013 @12:23PM (#5083959)
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Non-synchronous_Netwo...

The Unix timestamp 915148800 (from the table) represents two times (separated by one second from each other).

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Re:Some Notes About Time by jtheory on Saturday January 19, 2013 @06:30PM (#5085238)
Because of the leap seconds -- the unix time would show the same time for those two seconds (before/after the leap).
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