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Daylight saving creator left the chat.... (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't work like that. UTC goes forward always. Leap seconds are scheduled and known in advance. NTP time services will just smear time advancement a little to account for an additional second. Time never has to go backwards. This is how Google does it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is how Google does it in their datacenters, but not major OSes by default