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Re:Let’s Stop the Unix Time Insanity by CanSpice on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:30PM (#6837672)
No you can't, because leap seconds affect UTC as well. We don't know how many leap seconds are going to be added or subtracted between now and then.
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Re:Let’s Stop the Unix Time Insanity by haberman on Monday December 02, 2013 @07:39PM (#6837711)
It does not matter, because leap seconds do not affect the UNIX timestamp <-> UTC mapping. That is the whole point of what I am saying.

The UNIX timestamp for 2023-01-01 00:00 UTC is 1672560000. I can tell you that right now even though I do not know how many leap seconds will be added between now and then.

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Re:Let’s Stop the Unix Time Insanity by CanSpice on Thursday December 05, 2013 @12:44PM (#6855793)
Huh. I didn't know that the UNIX timestamp essentially gets recalculated at UTC midnight every day to ensure that midnight now = midnight yesterday + 86400. I take back my previous argument.
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