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Ah, I see what you mean - akin to the OS clock being in UTC, while a user sets their account $TZ environment to their local time.
by bashinator 11y ago
Ah, I see what you mean - akin to the OS clock being in UTC, while a user sets their account $TZ environment to their local time.
- mikeash 11y agoExactly. The underlying clock would store actual seconds since 1970, and when you request UTC it would add the current leap second offset. Which is more or less how GPS does it already, for an actual working example.