Unix time and leap seconds

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The number of seconds per day are fixed with Unix timestamps.

The Unix time number is zero at the Unix epoch, and increases by
exactly 86400 per day since the epoch.

So it cannot represent leap seconds. The OS will slow down the clock to accommodate for this. The leap seconds is simply not existent as far a Unix timestamps are concerned.

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