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Nope. They don't include leap seconds.

The technical definition is "Number of days since 1st Jan 1970 in GMT" × 86400 + "Number of seconds since midnight GMT"

Unix time clocks does funny things when there's a leap second which is about 1½ years. Some pause for a second, some go forward then backward etc.




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