roger
Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:45, Roger Searle wrote:
this has been bugging me all afternoon. it would appear we're both partly wrong. i didn't take into account the different number of leap days between 1900 and 1934 (8) [1], and 1970 and 2004 (9) so that brings us to the same day. your method is altered by being wrapped by nzdt (made later by 13 hours). therefore after making the appropriate adjustments to both methods a reconciliation occurs and the correct time and date is yesterday morning at 6:09.
look what 60 seconds does...
SuSEbox:/home/roger # date -d '1970-01-01 UTC 60 seconds' Thu Jan 1 12:01:00 NZST 1970
makes it the afternoon! obviously it should be Jan 1 00:01:00
[1900 wasn't a leap year, years divisible by 100 are not, unless they are divisible by 400. hence 2000 was. gives 97 leap years per 400 years]
my answer was done as i was about to leave the office for the day and was a bit rushed.
see chris's response, and also you are right, the emerge was started at 06.09 yesterday UTC which was 19.09 NZDT
which brings about an interesting point - to gentoo users only - genlop regards the download time as part of the emerge time, and with a 225 odd MB source file at 128 kb/s (about 1MB/minute) that inflates the time. I know this because I went out at 19.15 ish, not long after it started downloading.
Nick Rout wrote:
bzzzt incorrect, not sure if timezones are the problem.
Mon Oct 18 19:09:16 NZDT 2004
it may have been 6.09 am in Greenwich - no thats still out by a day?
1900 was a leap year and 2000 wasn't, or is it the other way round?
I'll stick to date as proposed by mjg and the date info page :)
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:34:43 +1300 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
putting that into a spreadsheet, which starts counting from 1900 I believe,
returns 17/10/1934 6:09am. So I believe your answer is 17/10/2004 6:09am -
Sunday morning just gone?
