Time mystery: What was last midnight in seconds?
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-- This script tests getting the seconds at midnite
-- last night using three methods
-- First is based on the assumption seconds function
-- began at midnite in the past, probably wrong assumptin
-- since docs say "arbitrary seconds in the past"
put the seconds into tNow
put tNow- (tNow mod 86400) into tLastMidNiteA
-- the second method assumes that "convert" returns
-- midnite of the beginning of the current day.
put the short date into tLastMidNiteB
convert tLastMidNiteB to seconds
-- Third method uses the current time as a portion of 24 hours
-- passed since midnite and then subtracts that from now, in seconds
put the time into tNow
set the itemdelimiter to ":"
if word 2 of item 2 of tNow = "PM" then put (12+ item 1 of tNow) into item
1 of tNow
put ((item 1 of tNow*60*60) + (word 1 of item 2 of tNow*60)) into
tSinceMidnite
put the seconds-tSinceMidnite into tLastMidniteC
-- but, we get three different times:
put tLastMidNiteA & cr& tLastMidNiteB & cr & tLastMidniteC after fld
"returned_data"
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We get three different times for midnite and the difference is not trivial
998265600
998222400
998215200
So, when was last midnight, in seconds? Now, what IS interesting is that
method 2 and 3 are exactly two hours apart and Hawaii is two hours off the
international dateline: i.e. zone two on the international time system by
longitude.
Can we have some clues?
TIA
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