Is the line
> prin ["Epoch date" epoch "is" 1-Jan-1970 + days2 time2]
perhaps supposed to have + inserted before 'time2.
The + operation for adding an integer number of days to a date does appear
to correctly take care of leap years, including that century years are not
leap years unless they are multiples of 400, (like 2000), in which case
they -are- leap years. You can test this by
>> >> 1-jan-1999 + 365
== 1-Jan-2000
>> 1-jan-2000 + 365
== 31-Dec-2000
>> 1-jan-1000 + 365
== 1-Jan-1001
>>
Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 4:05 AM
Subject: [REBOL] unix timestamp conversion? Re:(2)
> Will this script, submitted to the mailing list take into account
> leap years etc....or will there be a small descrepency?
>
> Cheers
>
> Francois
>
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > > Anyone written a script to convert unix timestamps (is 950618412) to
> > > a usable rebol date and time format.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Francois
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Hi Francois:
> >
> > Try this.
> >
> >
> > REBOL [
> > Title: "Convert Epoch Time to Date"
> > Author: "Ralph Roberts"
> > File: %epoch-to-date.r
> > Date: 21-Feb-2000
> > Purpose: {converts UNIX Epoch time (seconds after 1-1-1970
> > to current date and time }
> > Example: {outputs "Epoch date 951142987 is 21-Feb-2000
> > 14:38:52 GMT or 9:38:52 Local" }
> > ]
> >
> > epoch: 951142987
> >
> > days: divide epoch 86400
> >
> > days2: make integer! days
> >
> > time: (days - days2) * 24
> > hours: make integer! time
> > minutes: (time - hours) * 100
> > minutes2: make integer! minutes
> > seconds: make integer! (minutes - minutes2) * 100
> > time2: make time! ((((hours * 60) + minutes2) * 60) + seconds)
> >
> > prin ["Epoch date" epoch "is" 1-Jan-1970 + days2 time2]
> > print [" GMT or" time2 + now/zone "Local"]
> >
>
