RE: [PLUG] Party to celebrate 10^9 seconds of UNIX?

["Jarvis, John" <JJarvis@trueposition.com>]

I had no clue what a leap second was so I found this page..
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html

Wow, more than I ever wanted to know about that :)

Of course it doesn't really matter much to me as long as there is beer
drinking involved when it happens.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Jonas [mailto:bill@billjonas.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:19 PM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Party to celebrate 10^9 seconds of UNIX?


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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