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From: sla29970@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:23:52 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-07-24T19:23:52-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c78d8522-9ab2-450d-85b0-26977652a6d0@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500dc548$0$2936$f40e02c5@shockwave.dk.telia.net>

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26 14:19 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 [this message]
2012-07-25  6:40   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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