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by waffle_ss 3304 days ago
The problem with Unix milliseconds is it's actually not always increasing thanks to leap seconds. A positive leap second will result in the fractional part of the last second of the day going up to .999..., then resetting to .000... over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Leap_seconds
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akira2501 3304 days ago
There's always TAI64.

http://dyscour.se/post/12679668746/using-tai64-for-logging

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klodolph 3304 days ago
I'm with Google on this one... Just smear the leap seconds out in the general case, and anything that needs to be within 500ms of UTC can be handled as a special case.
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