Poul-Henning Kamp said:
> We're having a bit of a project management scandal in Denmark related
> to purchase of 83 "IC4" trains.
> 
> Reasearching this, I have been reading up on MVB, "Multi Vehicle
> Bus" (IEC61375) which is how modern rail-hardware talks to each
> other, which is good geek material btw, some smart thinking in
> there.
[...]
>       Notation for the TIMEDATE48 type
> 
>       Definition
>       A structured type expressing the absolute time in number
>       of seconds since Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC), 00:00:00,
>       1st January 1970 (Unix and ANSI-C format).

Could you please tell them that that is *NOT* the ANSI-C format (not that
there is such a thing as ANSI-C, but never mind). The C Standard does not
put any requirements on the representation of times.

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