[LEAPSECS] A new use for Pre-1972 UTC

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20090217.133212.-828392962.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes

:

>In message: <F21E028C02794C7BB61111CBA28E2EB6 at grendel>

>            "Gerard Ashton" <ashtongj at comcast.net> writes:

>:    Concatenate the "epoch" time at the time this ID value is being

>:    generated ; the "epoch" time is the number of seconds elapsed since

>:    00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) January 01,

>

>I think it would be better to define this in a different way.  It

>should be defined more like:

>

>       ((year - 1970) * 365 + ((year - 1969) / 4) + day_of_year) * 86400 +

>       hour * 3600 + min * 60 + sec


It would have been even better to write:

	An ISO C "time_t" timestamp.

Poul-Henning

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