Re: Filling in a struct timespec with the current date?
Re: Filling in a struct timespec with the current date?
- Subject: Re: Filling in a struct timespec with the current date?
- From: Esteban Bodigami <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:06:59 -0600
Eli Bach
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On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Esteban Bodigami wrote:
i want the time in kilosecs...
If you're ok with the time from Jan 1, 1970, you can use gettimeofday().
If it's from some other date/time, you need to calculate the difference between Jan 1, 1970 and the date you want, perhaps taking the current time zone into account. There are a variety of functions available to do this kind of calculation.
Once you have that, you just need to multiple that value by 1000.
Eli
1 kilosec = 1 day
1 kilosec != 1000 sec
...which is weird... you may think that you just multiply the seconds to minutes and then to hours and finally to days... but NO!
> one day has never had 24 hours (1440)... it is like 24 hours + 1 minute (1500), because of many astronomical cycles that were never taken into account when the 365 Gregorian Calendar was invented.
for simplicity we have also the "megasec", which will be 1 year, and the "zetasec" which is 1 galactic year (the Mayan Calendar in this way is superior; they knew about the galactic year which equals 26,000 years).
btw, for conversion of time i don't use "seconds" i use "units of time"... which are related to pixies (COLORS and LIGHT); because people cann't see either nano-pixies nor zeta-pixies (they are part of what has being proved by science to be outside of the range of human visible light)... one "light-second" is 300k -1m; but 1 unit of time = 3z units of lenght (almost meters).
the time zone is irrelevant, it is UTC +0
I am fine with the epoch being 1970, because if you -40 there is 1930 (Great Depresion) and if you +40 there is 2010 (next year, 2 years before the 13th baktun and the year 2555 of the Buddhist Era... there will be a year 2600 B.E. btw =)
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Esteban Bodigami Vincenzi
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