[Gambas-user] Unix Date conversion

[frame down under]

indeed: me reading up on wikipedia revealed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year#Rules_for_determining_when_to_have_a_leap_year

thx!


2006/7/24, Pablo Vera <pvera at ...729...>:
> Sorry to disagree, but leap years are years that can be divided evenly
> by 4, except century years unless they can be divided evenly by 400.
>
> The year 2000 WAS a leap year.
>
> 1600 - yes
> 1700, 1800, 1900 - no
> 2000 - yes
> 2100, 2200, 2300 - no
> 2400 - yes
> ...
>
> Pablo
> _______________________________________
>
> frame down under wrote:
> > 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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