Wouldn't the leap seconds be only formatting for display where as time stored in epochs is universal? If I'm on Mars the epochs value is the same whereas local time (on Mars) may have a totally different set of adjustments to keep the human readable time true to that planets rotation etc.
📱 Michael McGlothlin > On Sep 3, 2015, at 5:06 AM, Claude Pache <claude.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That means that `Date.now()/1000` is the [Unix time] > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time), which can't represent leap > seconds. In particular, each minute is assumed to have exactly 60 seconds, > and thus it is impossible to represent `1981-06-30 23:59:60 UTC` in JS (or in > Unix time). > > —Claude > > >> Le 3 sept. 2015 à 11:40, Karl Cheng <qantas94he...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> The current specification has this to say about the time value in dates: >> >>> "Time is measured in ECMAScript in milliseconds since 01 January, 1970 UTC. >>> In time values leap seconds are ignored. It is assumed that there are >>> exactly 86,400,000 milliseconds per day." >> >> What I would like to seek clarification about is if we were to do the >> following: >> >> ```js >> Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) % 60; >> ``` >> >> Would complying with the specification mean that this value calculated for >> the "seconds" should not correspond with the time shown outside of >> JavaScript (because of leap seconds)? For example, if that code returns >> "30", would that mean that a clock following UTC should show a seconds value >> of "04"? At the moment, it seems that the implementations I have tested do >> not follow this. >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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