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“The POSIX time number is twenty-seven seconds lower.”

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POSIX time assumes every day is exactly 86,400 seconds. It isn’t, so Unix time is not seconds since 1970, and it jumps backwards every time astronomers add a leap second. The standard’s authors knew this and wrote it down anyway. Every system clock on earth is off by 27 seconds on purpose.