On May 25, 8:16 am, zef...@fysh.org (Zefram) wrote: > The form of epoch seconds implemented by DateTime doesn't count > leap seconds. So in the time scale supplied by DateTime it is *not* > a linear count of elapsed seconds from a starting point.
It is a linear count of mean solar seconds, but not of UTC seconds. For most civil purposes the counting of mean solar seconds is both traditional and legal. Only when dealing with technical issues does it make a difference which kind of second is being counted.
