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		charcircuit 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Think About Time in Programming How is it misleading? The source code of UNIX literally has time as a variable of seconds that increments every second.

adgjlsfhk1 7 months ago [–]

leap seconds

LegionMammal978 7 months ago | [–]

Also, UTC had a different clock rate than TAI prior to 1972. And TAI itself had its reference altitude adjusted to sea level in 1977.

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