Really? Now I'm confused
The table in Wikipedia is good for clarifying matters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Leap_seconds
From there you can clearly see that e.g. Unix time 915148800 lasted two seconds
We can make an analogy to leap days:
- UTC is like Gregorian calendar, on leap years it goes Feb28-Feb29-Mar1 (23:59:59-23:59:60-00:00:00)
- TAI would be just always going from Feb28-Mar1 (23:59:59-00:00:00) and ignoring leap years
- Unix time would be like to go Feb28-Mar1-Mar1 (23:59:59-00:00:00-00:00:00) on leap years, repeating the date
From this it should be pretty obvious why I consider Unix time so bonkers.
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The table in Wikipedia is good for clarifying matters:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Leap_seconds
From there you can clearly see that e.g. Unix time 915148800 lasted two seconds
We can make an analogy to leap days:
- UTC is like Gregorian calendar, on leap years it goes Feb28-Feb29-Mar1 (23:59:59-23:59:60-00:00:00)
- TAI would be just always going from Feb28-Mar1 (23:59:59-00:00:00) and ignoring leap years
- Unix time would be like to go Feb28-Mar1-Mar1 (23:59:59-00:00:00-00:00:00) on leap years, repeating the date
From this it should be pretty obvious why I consider Unix time so bonkers.