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You have it backwards. If you look at it at midnight UTC (on any day, not just NYE) it WOULD be an exact multiple of 86400. (Try it and see.) Because of leap s
by School-Cotton 2y ago
You have it backwards. If you look at it at midnight UTC (on any day, not just NYE) it WOULD be an exact multiple of 86400. (Try it and see.)
Because of leap seconds, this is wrong. Midnight UTC tonight is in fact NOT a multiple of 86,400 real, physical seconds since midnight UTC on 1970-01-01.
- jacobgkau 2y agoHe didn't have it backwards, he was saying the same thing as you. He said, "suppose you had a clock that counted seconds," then described how it would work (it would be a non-multiple) if that was the case, which it isn't. You ignored that his description of the behavior was part of a hypothetical and not meant to describe how it actually behaves.
- School-Cotton 2y agoYou’re absolutely right — not sure how I misinterpreted that so badly.
- christina97 2y agoThanks but I’m a “she” :)