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Comment by alex_duf

3 days ago

are you saying that we may have a situation where 10:00:10 UTC might be 11:00:11 BST ?

If so I'm failing to see how this is less likely to cause bugs

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BoppreH  3 days ago

No, never. BST is defined as UTC + 1 hour. The leap seconds were making both UTC and BST jump around, and now neither will jump around anymore.

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