Comment by Findecanor
2 days ago
TIL that Unix Time does not count leap seconds. If it did, it wouldn't have been possible to write routines that are this fast.
2 days ago
TIL that Unix Time does not count leap seconds. If it did, it wouldn't have been possible to write routines that are this fast.
If Unix Time enumerated leap seconds, you couldn't convert future timestamps into localized times.
Could you elaborate on what you mean? I think it's already impossible to accurately turn a future timestamp into a local time, leap seconds or not, because of timezone shenanigans. So I'm probably misunderstanding what you're talking about.
I think it depends on whether you consider “localized” to refer to a point in time in a particular time zone, or to a point in time in a particular physical location.
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Leap seconds are not deterministic.