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    2 months ago

    It doesn’t work like that. UTC goes forward always. Leap seconds are scheduled and known in advance. NTP time services will just smear time advancement a little to account for an additional second. Time never has to go backwards. This is how Google does it.

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      2 months ago

      This is how Google does it in their datacenters, but not major OSes by default