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From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unix Time
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:57:42 +0100
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:59:47 +0200 (CEST), szonyi calin
<caszonyi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> to convert a number of secconds in actual time:
> a minute has 60 seconds
> an hour has 60 minutes = 3600 seconds
> a day has 24 hours = 86400 seconds

...but don't use this because over the period of seconds since epoch
(January 1 1970 is when UNIX began counting time) it'll not take in to
account leap seconds and the like - so you'll cunningly be out of time
by a little in every calculation.

No. Use the standard POSIX time functions instead - e.g. localtime()
to give you the view of time for where you are in the world.

Cheers,

Jon.