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You can use whatever solution you want - hold the timestamp, smear time, it's up to you. It's still monotonic, and uses the same epoch. You've still got 74 ran

You can use whatever solution you want - hold the timestamp, smear time, it's up to you. It's still monotonic, and uses the same epoch. You've still got 74 random bits.

deathanatos 2y ago
> You can use whatever solution you want - hold the timestamp, smear time, it's up to you. It's still monotonic, and uses the same epoch. "Whatever solution" I want? So… let's assume the programmer thinks "it's just POSIX time", they call their language of choice's "gimme POSIX time" function. This function, under default circumstances, is probably going to say "the leap second in POSIX time is also the last second of the day", i.e., it repeats the timestamp. Thus, it isn't monotonic. (Which is the point of the parent comment…)