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Why does that matter? You can reliably calculate the missing seconds when converting it for output.
by tux1968 14y ago
Why does that matter? You can reliably calculate the missing seconds when converting it for output.
- rmc 14y agoNo, you can't reliably calculate it forward or backwards. To figure out the offset for dates in the past, you'd have to store the list of when leap seconds are added. This system is hardly a "just the number of seconds since epoch", but now have a arbitrary data attached. The official group that figures out leap seconds can't predict things more than 6 months in advance. How are you going to figure out in advance what's going to happen in 2 years time?