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I wonder: Why is Daylight Savings/Normal Time not implemented using monotically increasing hours? Day goes up to hour 23 one time of year and hour 25 the other

I wonder: Why is Daylight Savings/Normal Time not implemented using monotically increasing hours? Day goes up to hour 23 one time of year and hour 25 the other instead of doing a clock hour twice. Would be weird to be able to have 23-hour and 25-hour days. But this seems to be how leap seconds are handled (one 61 second minute)?

leni536 4y ago
That could probably work, but I'm glad that is handled by changing the timezone instead. Otherwise inventors of unix and ntp times would have got the bright idea to rewind or forward those times by a full hour twice a year.