So Gil, you are saying that a UNIX time of, for example, 60, represents 1:34 am on 1/1/1970 -- or represents 0:26 am? (Theoretically -- there were no leap seconds before 1970.)
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Assembler - convrssion of Epoch (Unix) time to printable On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:47:39 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > ..., the UNIX epoch is simply a number. The number of seconds since 00:00:00 GMT 1 Jan 1970. It would be rather easy to convert to yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss if it weren't for the "leap seconds". Which may or may not be of any interest to you. > Not really. In effect, the origin of NTP shifts by one second every time a leap second occurs. It is now 00:00:34 GMT 1 Jan 1970; in a little over 3 months it will be 00:00:35 GMT 1 Jan 1970. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xbd_chap04.html ... it is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
