If we ever lose a leap second, UTC goes straight from 23:59:58 to 00:00:00, but Unix time goes up by two seconds
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@qntm does UTC have a canonical seconds-based encoding, where mincrement would correspond to those two times?
@PowerUser This sounds like a job for International Atomic Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time …
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@qntm Interesting - thanks! So, If I understand - formulaic epoch+delta without fixup, and so dense; leap tables provide TAI<->UTC mappings? -
@PowerUser I think so - 1 more reply
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