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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Imagine if the epoch for 64 bit time_t was set to coincide with Julian
: Day zero using the rather naiive POSIX math:
: N [days] * 86400 [seconds/day]
: Converting from an old time_t to the new one would entail adding an
: constant offset, no big deal.
I'd rather see it as Modified Julian Day, since the MJD has an epoch
that starts at midnight, while JD starts at noon. This is a change
since the current Unix Epoch starts at midnight. MJD = JD - 2400000.5
It is 24537312.4 JD and 53731.9 MJD, more or less, UTC as I write
this.
Either epoch is fine for the range of the 64-bit number. In fact, you
can encode about a size hundred thousand range of years (+- 292271
years) of microseconds as a 64-bit number. Nano seconds give only
about 300 years. The microsecond conversion would be also easy and
trivial....
Warner
P.S. http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/mjd.html is a good reference for mjd
if you're unfamiliar with what phk and I are talking about.
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