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sopooneo on Jan 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Some Notes About Time

I'm a noob. How can two equal timestamps represent different times? Or do you just mean as presented in different timezones?

albertzeyer on Jan 19, 2013 | [–]

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Non-synchronous_Netwo...

The Unix timestamp 915148800 (from the table) represents two times (separated by one second from each other).

jtheory on Jan 19, 2013 | [–]

Because of the leap seconds -- the unix time would show the same time for those two seconds (before/after the leap).

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