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> That doesn't make a lot of sense, as UTC does have leap seconds.

Pedantic much? Posting in technical forums is such a bother. People pick at any unimportant detail.

Reworded just for you:

The only reliable time stamp would be something like UTC but without leap seconds.

I am sorry. My intention was not to sound pedantic. I only wanted to point out that we are fortunate enough to already have what you describe.

I too wish we used TAI-based timestamps instead of Unix timestamps in a more widespread manner!

It is a bit silly that we cannot determine any duration involving a UTC time a couple of years in the future…