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[Ian McCulloch]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Ian McCulloch wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> 
> > But wouldn't that have made it 36000 seconds even later, or am I not
> > thinking straight.
> 
> 0 local time corresponds to 36000 UTC, so 1 jan 1970 is actually negative
> with respect to local time, 
> $ date --date="1 jan 1970" +%s
> -36000

Hmm, its still too early in the morning - that is the wrong way around,
0 UTC is equivalent to 36000 local time