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>>>>> "SC" == Steve Crawford <scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

SC> Very convoluted calculation as others have noted. As to why it is
SC> "off", you are casting one part of the statement to an integer thus
SC> truncating the microseconds but are not doing the same on the other
SC> side of the calculation.

It wasn't the microsecond difference I asked about, it was the 6 hour difference.

The original, ancient code I used needed to return integer seconds.  And
it always gave answers consistant with date +%s.

What I haven't determined is why converting back is off by 21600 seconds.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@xxxxxxxxxxx>         OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6


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