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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:40:00 +0200
Date: 2012-07-25T08:40:00+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ivdmu3durx2.1l8gawr0lyhyr.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c78d8522-9ab2-450d-85b0-26977652a6d0@googlegroups.com

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:23:52 -0700 (PDT), sla29970@gmail.com wrote:

> On Monday, July 23, 2012 2:42:32 PM UTC-7, erlo wrote:
>> This is because Ada.Calendar starts at 1-1-1901. But NTP starts at 
>> 1-1-1900, so how can I work my way around this issue? I need to compare 
>> NTP time with Unix Epoch based time.
> 
> What time scale is being used?  Is that time scale counting mean solar
> seconds or atomic seconds?  Of course UTC and atomic time did not exist at
> those epochs, but unless the situation defines the time scale a problem
> exists even if the year in question is 1972.  See
> http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/epochtime.html

A great link. Thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-23 21:42 Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch) erlo
2012-07-23 22:07 ` Adam Beneschan
     [not found]   ` <5s8s08lv6dj1i4tkb99roq9roifsgr44vd@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-24  7:11     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24  7:50       ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24  8:14         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24  8:34           ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24  9:13             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 12:27               ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 13:02                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 14:10                   ` erlo
2012-07-24 16:37                 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24  7:24   ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 16:26     ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24 18:28       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 19:07         ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24 20:17           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 19:43         ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-24 20:29           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 21:22             ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25  6:32               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25  7:04                 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25  7:33                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25  8:05                     ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25  8:30                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25  8:45                         ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25  9:30                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 20:33     ` Simon Wright
2012-07-25 10:14       ` Simon Wright
2012-07-25 13:16         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24  7:37   ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 11:34 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 11:59   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-24 15:08     ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 16:59       ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-24 19:25         ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 22:07           ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-24 19:17     ` John B. Matthews
2012-07-25  2:23 ` sla29970
2012-07-25  6:40   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
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