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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:48:49 -0700
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
writes:
> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote at 23:42 this Tuesday (GMT):
[...]
>> The epoch is a specified moment in time.  That moment can be
>> expressed as midnight UTC Jan 1 1970, as 4PM PST Dec 31 1969,
>> or (time_t)0.  GMT/UTC is just a convenient way to specify it.
>
> You could also be GoLang and use MST January 2 2006 at 3:04:05 PM.
> (1/2 03:04:05 PM 2006 GMT-7)

That's not an epoch.  It's a reference time used in documentation,
chosen because all the fields have unique values.  It means that results
of converting a time to the dozen or so supported layouts can be easily
read.

[...]

> Datetime is a nightmare, this is why we use a simple seconds-since-X
> system.

Indeed.  That makes it a slightly less unpleasant nightmare.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */