11.17.05

GMT

Posted in General at 1:05 am

I need to sit down and figure out how daylight savings time works with GMT…because the time on my server now appears to be off by an hour…*sigh*

so do we (we being the PST time zone) always have a GMT offset of -8, and well-written software is supposed to compensate…or do we change to -7…or is it -9? during daylight savings??? Don’t tell me, I want to figure it out for myself.

Nerd fact: UNIX-based operating systems keep track of time in the number of seconds elapsed since 12:00am on January 1, 1970. This means unix-based OSes never had a y2k problem–although there will be a problem sometime in 2038 because the number gets too big for 32 bit hardware to deal with. If you’re still using 32 bit hardware in 2038…well, you deserve whatever you get. ;-P

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