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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:40:58AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > UTC equivalent to conversion on the naive basis that leap seconds are ignored and all > > years divisible by 4 are leap years. This value is not the same as the actual number of > > seconds between the time and the Epoch, because of leap seconds and because clocks are not > > required to be synchronized to a standard reference. > I'm not sure what you are quoting from but it is out of date on the > subject of leap years. "man 2 time" on Debian Lenny. The treatment of leap years looks ridiculous, but within the context of a 32-bit time_t, all divisible-by-4 years between 1901 and 2038 are leap years. It's a bit of a problem for 64-bit time_t though. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 | ||||||||||||
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