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Re: [PLUG] Party to celebrate 10^9 seconds of UNIX?
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:18:10PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> Epoch time starts at midnight, January 1, 1970, GMT. You're starting
> from midnight EST, which is GMT + 5 hours. Then date converts it to
> EDT, which is an hour later than EST, and that's why it overshoots GMT
> by an hour.
BTW, has anyone accounted for leap seconds? The standard says that UNIX
time is the number of seconds since the epoch, *not* counting leap
seconds. I don't know if the system clocks account for leap seconds or
not...
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Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should
be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and
this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin
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