On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 09:22:27PM +0000, Charles Bailey wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:33:59PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > > > That being said, is the AIX value actually right? I did not look closely > > at first, but just assumed that it was vaguely right. But: > > > > 999999999999999999 / (86400 * 365) > > > > is something like 31 billion years in the future, not 160 million. > > A real date calculation will have a few tweaks (leap years, etc), but > > that is orders of magnitude off. > > Well, this is embarrassing, while moving this through the corporate > firewall (aka typing on one machine while looking at another), I > munged the date. It still doesn't seem right but at least you can now > see the actual data.
Hmm, so the year you got is actually: 1623969404. That still seems off to me by a factor 20. I don't know if this is really worth digging into that much further, but I wonder what you would get for timestamps of: 99999999999999999 9999999999999999 999999999999999 etc. Do we start generating weird values at some particular size? Or is AIX gmtime really more clever than I am, and is accounting for wobble of the Earth or something over the next billion years? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
