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In article <1992Sep12.042747.26773@ima.isc.com> karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>ANSI doesn't specify that time() even *has* a "base value".
>
>POSIX says that it's measured in seconds since the Epoch, but since the
>number of seconds since 1899-12-31 is already more than the common value of
>LONG_MAX, I doubt that they've moved the Epoch backwards like that.
>
>Are you sure you're talking about the internal encoding of |time()|, and not
>the |struct tm| representation?  (That *does* have an (unfortunate) base of
>1900 for the |tm_year| component.)

Yes, it is the |time_t| value returned by |time()| that I'm looking at.
It specifically says it is the number of seconds since midnight on 
Dec 31, 1899.  And you're right, the number of seconds from that point to
today is roughly 60*60*24*365*92 which is 2.9 billion.

The interesting thing about Microsoft's doc is that their example program
calls this function, and does a printf("The number of seconds since 1/1/70:").
So, which one is right, the comment or the sample program???

matt
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