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WDYM? Leap seconds are a 61st second, hitting 60 before 00 next minute. https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standards/canadas-official-time/leap
by 5-0 7mo ago
WDYM?
Leap seconds are a 61st second, hitting 60 before 00 next minute.
https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standards/canadas-official-time/leap-second https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standard...
This makes sense for timestamps in traditional logs. You don't have to second guess the order of things, especially across multiple systems or services.
- leni536 7mo agoI meant unix and NTP times, which are supposedly just monotonic numbers marching forward (except for leap seconds), not the UTC representation over abstract time. I know we just get a 60th second in a minute. What unix and NTP timestamps do (or originally did) was repeating a second. Then we got other hacks to keep monotonicity, like smearing. Not without tradeoffs.
- 5-0 7mo agoThanks for explaining! It's indeed crazy that "this is still a thing". (I regret I did not put in the research prior to answering to your comment: https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/info/leap-second.htm#os https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/info/leap-second.htm#... )