On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:47:39 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
> ..., the UNIX epoch is simply a number. The number of seconds since 00:00:00
> GMT 1 Jan 1970. It would be rather easy to convert to yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss if
> it weren't for the "leap seconds". Which may or may not be of any interest to
> you.
>
Not really. In effect, the origin of NTP shifts by one second every time
a leap second occurs. It is now 00:00:34 GMT 1 Jan 1970; in a little
over 3 months it will be 00:00:35 GMT 1 Jan 1970.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xbd_chap04.html
... it is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds
since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between
the referenced time and the Epoch.
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