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		NewJazz on Jan 20, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry ... This is the api presumably. Not sure about what would prevent days, wasn't familiar with the lore. https://pkg.go.dev/time#ParseDuration

dsymonds on Jan 20, 2025 [–]

It's because units up to hours are of a fixed size, but days in most places are only 24h for ~363/365 days of the year, with some being 23h and some being 25h.

(This is ignoring leap seconds, since the trend is to smear those rather than surface them to userspace.)

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