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by deepsun 945 days ago
And it's intentional, so each day has exactly 86400 seconds, even though it doesn't correspond to UTC.

In fact, UTC will change its leap second logic much sooner than Unix time logic, so UTC logic will be more like Unix time.

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> In fact, UTC will change its leap second logic much sooner than Unix time logic, so UTC logic will be more like Unix time.

This. If anyone is interested in a source:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-leap-seconds-...