Comment on If a database is edited before daylight savings time ends (time rolls back), would that corrupt the database?

• CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They decided to stop doing leap seconds.

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  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Until they decide to reverse it, or until they make a different change.

    Just use Epoch time for backend and calculations, and use local time for displaying to the user (or UTC for debugging systems that span time zones)

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• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Unix time is just a weird way of storing UTC time, since it’s just seconds relative to a UTC time.

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