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Article #262Re: Need (today's date - 2 WORKING days) [was: Need (today's date + [1-7]]
From: Leslie Griffiths (Griff)
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 07:53
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 07:53
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In article <1992Aug2.031753.6709@alw.nih.gov> ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov (Arthur David Olson) writes: >> ...I thought the number of seconds in a day was constant. >> i.e. >> #define ONE_DAY 86400 > >Some days have one hour's worth of seconds more (or less) than this; >some days have an extra second (or can potentially have two extra seconds, >one less second, or two less seconds). Really? Which ones, I may need to reset my watch for the 23/25 hour day. (I don't really mind the extra second or two, I don't have second hands.) You aren't referring to the switch from DST to GMT and vice-versa are you? (or whatever you switch from DST to/from) > Arthur David Olson ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov Cheers -- Griff \\ ccx018@uk.ac.cov ^^^^^ :-= ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ //
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!coventry!ccx018 From: ccx018@cch.coventry.ac.uk (Leslie Griffiths (Griff)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Need (today's date - 2 WORKING days) [was: Need (today's date + [1-7]] Message-ID: <BsEDxv.85I@cck.coventry.ac.uk> Date: 3 Aug 92 07:53:55 GMT References: <1992Jul28.072025.13886@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> <Bs7E0r.Gpq@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Aug2.031753.6709@alw.nih.gov> Sender: news@cck.coventry.ac.uk (news user) Organization: Coventry University Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: cc_sysh