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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:56:57PM -0400, A.N.Varady wrote: > Walt Mankowski wrote: > > > > > 1:46 am GMT and 9:46 pm EDT are both right. 2:46 am EDT (which is > > the time the original poster gave) is wrong. > > > Cool! Could someone explain why "date -d '1970-01-01 1000000000 > sec'" yields the "incorrect" time? "date -d 1970年01月01日" gives clue: Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1969 Epoch time starts at midnight, January 1, 1970, GMT. You're starting from midnight EST, which is GMT + 5 hours. Then date converts it to EDT, which is an hour later than EST, and that's why it overshoots GMT by an hour. Walt
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