On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 10:20:46AM +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 06/04/2013 23:50, Ken Moffat a écrit : > > > googling for 'powers of e' suggests e*8 is 2,980.9579870409 so the > > file was approx 8346 seconds in the future, or about 2 hours 20 in > > coarse figures. > Not very important, but I would think that 2.8e+08 is the C notation for > floating point real, that is +08 is a power of 10. This would mean that the > date was wrong by about 10 years (1 day is ~100,000 s, one year > is roughly 30,000,000, so 280,000,000 is around ten years plus or minus > one or two years...). > > Pierre
LOL. Thanks for clarifying that, two hours didn't feel right for the explanation. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
