Puzzled with Time Server conversion problems?

[Benjamin Schollnick]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 08:51:55, Bill Eldridge <bill at hk.rfa.org> wrote:


> >>> 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.

Eh?

Bill, I've been staring at this problem on and off for days.  I 
certainly
could have made a typo in the comment(s), but either way I worked
around it with a manual calculation....

I'm welcome to simplifications.... (See code posted about 2 minutes 
ago)

		- Benjamin

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