alt Hacker NewsIt is a pet peeve of mine, but any statement that implies that Unix time is a count of seconds since epoch is annoyingly misleading and perpetuates such misconception. Imho better mental model for Unix time is that has two parts, days since epoch * 86400, and seconds since midnight, which get added together.
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charcircuit • yesterday at 10:58 PM
How is it misleading? The source code of UNIX literally has time as a variable of seconds that increments every second.
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But it's correct. It's "a" count. Just not the count that you might always expect. And the "second" in this definition means what people usually understand as a second, as in the duration is always the same. That's all, and it's pretty useful imho.