Hi all,
I'm having trouble understanding matters related to TIMESTAMP(TZ)-s and
leap seconds - my machine runs on UTC so as to remove any issues related
to the zones.
From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second,
There have been 27 leap seconds added to UTC since 1972.
But, when I run this fiddle (see bottom of this email link)
https://dbfiddle.uk/wxvmzfJb
(first snippet - 2015 -> 2016) I get a "nice" even number for the EPOCH
of, 00:00:00 2016 , say (= 1451606400) - now, with 27 leap seconds since
1972, I would expect that number to be (something like) 1451606427?
I thought that the EPOCH was the number of seconds since 1970-01-01
00:00:00? Is this incorrect?
Also, (first snippet again), why is the TIMESTAMPTZ 23:59:60 2015 even
allowed?
Now, we come to the second snippet (2016 -> 2017), I get *_exactly_* the
same behaviour!
I was expecting to see that '2016-12-31 23:59:60'::TIMESTAMPTZ would
work (leap second) and then that '2017-01-01 00:00:00'::TIMESTAMPTZ
would have incremented by 1 second?
I'm puzzled. Does PostgreSQL take leap seconds into account? Does anyone?
Any help, advice, recommendations, URL-s, references &c. appreciated.
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