Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> We really need to separate the frames of reference of time - there's no
> need for smear for internal "seconds since epoch" time.
Well, the problem is that "seconds since the epoch" is not a count of UTC seconds, it is a mapping from broken-down time to a linear time, and the mapping is defined in a way that requires 86400 seconds per day and does not accommodate leap seconds.
Leap smear exists mainly because "seconds since the epoch" does not allow for leap seconds.
Tony.
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