I think your number is a little off, or at least different... I’ve been told that according to the Time Protocol in RFC 868, the value is -2208988800. Not sure where the extra 10 seconds is coming from. Leap seconds were not announced until after 1972, so it’s not that…
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc868 - Dave Rivers - > On Oct 28, 2015, at 8:26 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For those doing time conversion, posix (used by most unix systems) > uses the epoch of Jan. 1st, 1970. > > > To convert from Jan 1st, 1900 to 1970, add -2208988790 seconds. > > I found this from: > > http://www.epochconverter.com/ > > But otherwise, it is 70 years with 17 leap days. > > -- glen >
