On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:48:53AM -0700, Andrew O. Mellinger wrote:
} I'd have to agree with Jake here. This is odd. When I run the
} following snipper on my Mac I get:
}
} $t1 = 0;
} @c = gmtime($t1);
} print "GMT: $t1 = @c \n";
} @c = localtime($t1);
} print "Local: $t1 = @c \n";
}
} We see:
}
} GMT: 0 = 0 0 7 1 0 4 5 0 1
} Local: 0 = 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 0 1
MacOS zero of time is Jan 1 1904 local time.
}
} (I'm in pacific time with daylight savings time so I am have a UTC of -7)
}
} If I run that same code snippet on different linux boxes I get.
}
} GMT: 0 = 0 0 0 1 0 70 4 0 0
} Local: 0 = 0 0 16 31 11 69 3 364 0
Unix zero of time is Jan 1 1970 UTC.
}
} This looks to be what a person would expect. It looks like the logic
} in the gmtime and localtime are somewhat reversed. This requires
} more investigation.
}
} Chris Nandor, are you reading this? Is the MacPerl source available?
}
} -Andrew
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