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ricardobeat
on July 1, 2012
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How Google handle leap seconds
It
is
literally the number of seconds
because of leap seconds
:)
haberman
on July 1, 2012
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Huh? When a leap second is added, a day has 86401 seconds, but time_t says it has only 86400. So the true number of seconds since the epoch drifts from time_t every time a leap second is added.
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