4 ms·
Unix time assumes that each day is exactly 86,400 seconds long (60 × 60 × 24 = 86,400), leap seconds be damned I don't think I understand this claim. Unix tim
by revicon 7y ago
Unix time assumes that each day is exactly 86,400 seconds long (60 × 60 × 24 = 86,400), leap seconds be damned
I don't think I understand this claim. Unix time has no concept of a "day". Leap seconds increment UTC time, but doesn't add anything to the number of seconds that have elapsed since unix epoc.
- nemetroid 7y agoThat's one of the falsehoods. Unix time is not equal to the number of elapsed seconds since the epoch, it is equal to N x 86400 + s, where N is the number of days that have elapsed since the epoch, and s is the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight.