Re: Time Libraries Rough Draft

On 2005-02-14, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

In article <1827606008@web.de>, "Udo Stenzel" wrote:

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And what would you do with the "UTCTime", whatever that is? You can't do arithmetic on it, because that is full of surprises, not only around leap seconds, but also around leap hours and days.

Leap hours and days?

*shrug*. Maybe he means the shifts that happen in localtime due to daylight savings time, for the first, and the February 29th that happens in leap years. Not that those are represented or make a difference in UTCTime. Udo, you really need to read the entire (long, yes) discussion in order to make useful comments. UTCTime is essentially just a count of seconds passed since the Unix Epoch of Jan 1 1970. One very important thing that UTCTime is used for is to represent unix (and a whole host of derived systems and programs) timestamps. -- Aaron Denney -><-