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Thanks for clarifying my statement!

Here's an example: I have packets read from an instrument which are timestamped in seconds since 1980-01-06 (GPS Epoch). To compute each packet's proper datetime representation in …

When the mapping between a time_t and a "human readable format" (hours, minutes, seconds, etc) takes into account extra leap seconds. You could use time_t underneath, if that's wha…

This is designed for programmers of user facing applications. For science and engineering, it does not address the problems, eg lack of leap seconds.

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