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

submitted 10 months ago by devilish666 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

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