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by Retr0id 539 days ago
wrong. unix time is discontinuous around leap seconds.

If you think you have no problems with unix time, it's because you never noticed them.

TAI is what you want.

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> unix time is discontinuous around leap seconds.

Wrong. It's continuous, it's just not monotonically increasing.

Feel free to update the wikipedia article in line with your opinion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time