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		_alternator_ 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop... Leap seconds are their own nightmare. UNIX time ignores them, btw, so that the unix epoch is 86400*number of days since 1/1/1970 + number of seconds since midnight. The behavior at the instance of a leap second is undefined.

adrianN 27 days ago | [–]

Undefined behavior is worse than complicated defined behavior imo.

oasisbob 27 days ago | [–]

That's a good way of describing that. It's far too easy to pretend UNIX timestamps would correspond to a stopwatch counting from 1/1/1970.

_alternator_ 27 days ago | [–]

Right. Currently epoch time is off the stopwatch time by 27 seconds.

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