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philwelch
on June 18, 2012
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Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time
Except it doesn't account for leap seconds.
rictic
on June 18, 2012
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Is that true? Isn't that the responsibility of the whatever component that translates the number of seconds since Jan 1 1970 into a calendar?
thristian
on June 18, 2012
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POSIX requires that the Unix timestamp value be incremented by exactly 86400 per day, regardless of how many seconds that day actually contained.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX_time#Encoding_time_as_a_...
rmc
on June 19, 2012
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Unix time is not the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970.
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