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Clarify whether now excludes leap seconds #70

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bakkot opened this issue Jun 21, 2024 · 0 comments
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Clarify whether now excludes leap seconds #70

bakkot opened this issue Jun 21, 2024 · 0 comments

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bakkot commented Jun 21, 2024

The documentation of now says

    /// The returned timestamps represent the number of seconds since
    /// 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z, also known as [POSIX's Seconds Since the Epoch],
    /// also known as [Unix Time].

But those things are in contradiction: Unix time is currently 37 seconds behind the number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.

This should be clarified, probably by adding "excluding leap seconds" to the description.
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