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No, but the representation of new year 2029 00:00 in a UTC timestamp depends on how many leap seconds happen between epoch, 1970-01-01T00:00:00, and then. If you compute the timestamp for 2029-01-01T00:00:00 UTC now, and they add another leap seconds in 2025, then your timestamp represents instead 2028-31-12T23:59:59 UTC. Depending on your business this may matter or not. Differences based on time zone changes may be even larger.


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