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Some Notes About Time
This is a trade-off: you can't represent a leap second, and your time is guaranteed to go backwards. On the other hand, every day has exactly 86,400 seconds, and you don't need a table of all previous and future leap seconds in order to format Unix time as human-preferred hours-minutes-seconds.
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Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2013
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 2013 | Some Notes About Time by arb99 | 210 | 113 |
