> Instead its more like number of days since epoch * 86400 + seconds since midnight. Which is 27 seconds different than simple seconds since epoch count. Yeah,

> Instead its more like number of days since epoch * 86400 + seconds since midnight. Which is 27 seconds different than simple seconds since epoch count. Yeah, the people who decided to do that were Wrong. Fortunately it only really matters during leap seconds, and nothing stops you from doing it the right way and having your timestamps in actual seconds since epoch and then converting to "Unix time" or anything else you need. See e.g. libtai: https://cr.yp.to/libtai.html https://cr.yp.to/libtai.html