[Gambas-user] Unix Date conversion

[Benoit Minisini]

On Monday 24 July 2006 14:37, MrBiTs wrote:
> /*
>     That is correct. # of seconds since 1/1/1970.
> */
>
> Number of seconds since 1/1/1970 00:00:00 GMT.
>
> In perl, for example, we have a very simple line to convert Unix Timestamp
> into human-readable format:
>
> $ perl -e "print scalar localtime(0);"
> Wed Dec 31 21:00:00 1969
>
> As I told, this is GMT based. So, here in Brazil we  have GMT-3, then
> that's correct.
>
> CheerS
>
>

I have read the man page...

Actually this is *not* the true number of seconds before 1/1/1970, because:
- All years divisible by four are considered leap years.
- Sometimes a leap second is added to some years, and it is ignored.

So maybe a dedicated function is needed...

-- 
Benoit Minisini