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oasisbobyesterday at 5:18 PM1 replyview on HN

That's a good way of describing that. It's far too easy to pretend UNIX timestamps would correspond to a stopwatch counting from 1/1/1970.


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_alternator_yesterday at 6:43 PM

Right. Currently epoch time is off the stopwatch time by 27 seconds.