Apropos? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

On Saturday, March 14, 2015 at 7:28:23 AM UTC-7, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
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> There are no leap seconds in universal time. There are leap seconds in UTC 
> which bridges terrestrial time (SI seconds) with universal time (day = 1 
> earth rotation; second = 1/86400 of an earth rotation) by using SI seconds 
> as the basic unit but introducing leap seconds here and there to ensure 
> that UTC days stay in sync with terrestrial days (but not terrestrial 
> seconds). This is why Date x Time ≅ DateTime for UT.
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