[Gambas-user] Unix Date conversion

[frame down under]

benoit,

Leap years are years that are divisible by 4, except if they are
divisible by 400.

The year 2000 was not a leap year.

Thnx

2006/7/24, Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...>:
> 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
>
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