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by kqr 2043 days ago
Why is this downvoted? It sounds great to my untrained ear. You could even use TAI for user-facing timestamps (to get consistent arithmetic) and then convert to UTC only in the end before displaying the date!
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wmf 2043 days ago
You know in some places they will forget the conversion so you'll have weird cases that are off by 37 seconds.
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kqr 2042 days ago
Surely that's

a) Discovered sooner than a leap year bug, and b) Given that humans and not machines are the consumers of the UTC time, less consequential than a leap year bug.

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saurik 2043 days ago
That seems like it would be obvious, though, so people would fix it.
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