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How does TAI relate to Epoch time?

More and more I use Epoch time for most things just because of how convenient it is.

I rarely need sub-second granularity, and it's just one number, so it's sortable, math-able, etc.

Then whoever is doing the display can convert it any way they want to.

Remember that your code needs to account for the possibility of a negative leap second, meaning if you're using epoch time for timestamps you could have an instance that an event that happened after a previous one could be stamped as having happened before it instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Edit: Actually I was slightly wrong, in the event of a leap second, we would repeat the same second twice.

Thank you for the heads-up!

I try to write code loose enough that this would not be a problem. :)

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