[LEAPSECS] A new use for Pre-1972 UTC

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <F21E028C02794C7BB61111CBA28E2EB6 at grendel>
            "Gerard Ashton" <ashtongj at comcast.net> writes:

:    Concatenate the "epoch" time at the time this ID value is being

:    generated ; the "epoch" time is the number of seconds elapsed since

:    00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) January 01,


I think it would be better to define this in a different way.  It
should be defined more like:

       ((year - 1970) * 365 + ((year - 1969) / 4) + day_of_year) * 86400 +
       hour * 3600 + min * 60 + sec

Since that's what they mean. Jan 1 is day 0, Jan 5 is day 4, etc.

Warner