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Well, unix timestamps are still tied to UTC, which has leap seconds for some reason...

I would prefer if we had a few seconds of an offset with Zulu "GMT" Time (pardon the double acronym).



Realistically, the first of our time systems that aliens are likely to encounter and associate with us is probably GPS time?

I sure as heck hope it is, at least...


GPS only goes up to 20 years though.

Ever heard of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover ?


Unix time doesn’t include leap seconds.


As I said 6 months ago, "Naw that would make way too much sense": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855416




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