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Re: [tor-bugs] #16458 [Core Tor/Tor]: torspec references UTC, but tor uses unix time (leap second handling)

#16458: torspec references UTC, but tor uses unix time (leap second handling)
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 Reporter:  teor                                 |          Owner:
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:  Tor:
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Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-spec documentation easy gmt utc  |  Actual Points:
  time                                           |
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Changes (by catalyst):

 * cc: catalyst (added)


Comment:

 If "Unix time" means POSIX seconds-since-the-epoch, it won't differ by ~30
 seconds from UTC.  If you're using the "right" time zones from the TZ
 database (which purport to count SI seconds since the POSIX epoch), you'll
 get such a difference but you're no longer using POSIX time.  I'm hoping
 that people don't run the "right" time zones in production, but some of
 the BSDs used to default to it.

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