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Matthew Hawkins matthew at topic.com.au
Wed Aug 29 12:05:19 EST 2001


On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Slightly wrong
> 
> $ date -u --date="1 jan 1970 + 1000000000 secs"
> Sat Sep  8 15:46:40 UTC 2001
> $ date  --date="1 jan 1970 + 1000000000 secs"
> Sun Sep  9 01:46:40 EST 2001
> 
> So it's Sun morning for party time in Oz.

Look at it another way, everybody in the UTC timezone only gets one time
to celebrate it, we get two.  There was some problem in starting at
quarter to four on saturday and going through to 2am sunday?  ;-)

-- 
Matt




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