We get another leap second tonight! Can anyone tell me why the time difference between the epoch and midnight is an exact number of minutes?
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@propensive very. And the more you read into it the more you'll cry
@antonpiatek Did you hear about the time when local time got retroactively "corrected" to be solar time in LA prior to about 1850?
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@antonpiatek Apparently that sucked for at least one company who had chosen a company-wide epoch in LA local time... -
@propensive use utc. Everywhere.
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@propensive no, but I think I'm going to cry. I remember@dretweek working on a customers complaint about lost days before gregorian cal -
@antonpiatek@propensive stupid atomic clocks not following astronomy. Epoch is calculated algorithmically so cannot handle leaps :-(
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