Puzzled with Time Server conversion problems?

[Bill Eldridge]

Benjamin Schollnick wrote:
> 

>         From my experimentation is GMTIME:
> 
> python GMTIME calcs                                                     RFC 868
> (Base 1970, Jan 1)                                                        (Base Jan 1, 1900)
> Jan 1, 1970     -              18,000.0                                         2,208,988,800
> Jan 1, 1976     -    189,320,400.0                                              2,398,291,200
> Jan 1, 1980     - 3,155,550,800.0                                       2,524,421,600
> 
> I don't see how python's Jan 1, 1980 calcuation can exceed the RFC's
> calculation,


It can't.  Your Jan 1, 1980 time has an extra 0:

>>> time.localtime(3155550800.0)
(1901, 12, 14, 4, 22, 28, 5, 348, 0)
>>> time.localtime(315555080.0)
(1980, 1, 1, 14, 11, 20, 1, 1, 0)

1970-1976 was about 190 million seconds, so 1976-1980 should
be less than double (380 million seconds), not 3.2 billion seconds.
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Bill Eldridge
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