On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:27 AM, James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "SC" == Steve Crawford <scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com> writes: > > SC> Very convoluted calculation as others have noted. As to why it is > SC> "off", you are casting one part of the statement to an integer thus > SC> truncating the microseconds but are not doing the same on the other > SC> side of the calculation. > > It wasn't the microsecond difference I asked about, it was the 6 hour > difference. > > The original, ancient code I used needed to return integer seconds. And > it always gave answers consistant with date +%s. > > What I haven't determined is why converting back is off by 21600 seconds. > > What timezone is your server set to - and/or the client requesting the calculation? I haven't looked to see if that is a plausible explanation but if you are +/- 6hrs from UTC... David J.
