Because otherwise you would get annoying off-by-27 errors whenever you did time() % 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Binary_representation_of_the_

Because otherwise you would get annoying off-by-27 errors whenever you did time() % 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Binary_representation_of_the_leap_second https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Binary_representat...