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> The unix time is synced with UTC

No, it isn't. The very article you linked explains that Unix time is monotonically increasing and ignores leap seconds.



"Unix time numbers are repeated in the second immediately following a positive leap second. The Unix time number 1483142400 is thus ambiguous: it can refer either to start of the leap second (2016-12-31 23:59:60) or the end of it, one second later (2017-01-01 00:00:00)."

From the linked article.




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