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Re:GitHub search for 84600 seconds. Oops. on Thursday May 08, 2014 @04:49PM (#7717602)
That is a very common value to use when you want something to either occur a bit more than once a day, or time out in a bit less than a day.
Re:GitHub search for 84600 seconds. Oops. on Thursday May 08, 2014 @04:46PM (#7717588)
Many of those are legitimately meant to be 23.5 hours, not 24 hours (TTL defaults, approximates for converting seconds to days, etc.)