In message <20090217.133212.-828392962....@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes
:
>In message: <f21e028c02794c7bb61111cba28e2...@grendel>
> "Gerard Ashton" <ashto...@comcast.net> writes:
>: Concatenate the "epoch" time at the time this ID value is being
>: generated ; the "epoch" time is the number of seconds elapsed since
>: 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) January 01,
>
>I think it would be better to define this in a different way. It
>should be defined more like:
>
> ((year - 1970) * 365 + ((year - 1969) / 4) + day_of_year) * 86400 +
> hour * 3600 + min * 60 + sec
It would have been even better to write:
An ISO C "time_t" timestamp.
Poul-Henning
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