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The leap second in Unix time is supposed to wait a second and pretend it never happened. I can see why a longer second could be trouble, but also… if you knew i
by apgwoz 2y ago
The leap second in Unix time is supposed to wait a second and pretend it never happened. I can see why a longer second could be trouble, but also… if you knew it was coming you could make every nanosecond last 2 and lessen the impact as time would always be monotonic?
- ziml77 2y agoThat's how Google documents their handling of it: https://developers.google.com/time/smear https://developers.google.com/time/smear