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I bet you could get me to give the wrong answer to most of these questions if you worded it cleverly in informal conversation, but the answer to anything time and date related in a technical setting is "Ugh, we'll have to look up the stupid edge cases here," right?

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Exactly.

And you also need to understand your timing requirements.

If all you care about is recording a date on an invoice, you really don’t need to worry about leap seconds or smearing or whatever.

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