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AvdB> Tobi decided, probably for good reasons, not to accept negative times. AvdB> I can only guess at this but my guess is that it has to do with overflow AvdB> detection or with problems on certain platforms. AvdB> AvdB> If negative times are not allowed, the first possible time in an RRD is AvdB> exactly januari 1st, 1970, 00:00 UTC. AvdB> AvdB> If a database should contain intervals of 86400 seconds, the first will AvdB> start on 19700101 00:00 UTC and will end on 19700102 00:00 UTC. I am storing time as time_t ... for savty reasons I put a test in which prevents you from creating any database before 1980 ... this could be changed to 1970 ... with some code review necessary ... I did not expect anybody to be using rrdtool for real old data :-) cheers tobi -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker, Timelord & SysMgr @ EE-Dept ETH-Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / TEL: +41(0)1-6325286 FAX:...1517 ICQ: 10419518 /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
