[vdr] Re: vdr 1.3.25 thread problems

[Sergei Haller]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Rainer Zocholl (RZ) wrote:

RZ> 
RZ> >the calculated time IS correct. you can use the small tool 'time' from
RZ> >nvram-wakeup package:
RZ> 
RZ> >  # ./time 1117634400
RZ> >  (time_t)     1117634400
RZ> >  (local time) Wed Jun  1 16:00:00 2005
RZ> >  (utc/gmt)    Wed Jun  1 14:00:00 2005
RZ> 
RZ> >or, if you trust 'date', use this:
RZ> 
RZ> >  # date +%s -d "Wed Jun  1 16:00:00 CEST 2005"
RZ> >  1117634400
RZ> 
RZ> 
RZ> I forgot to copy that test done here:
RZ> 
RZ> msi:~/video/nvram/nvram-wakeup# ./time 1117634400
RZ> (time_t)     1117634400
RZ> (local time) Wed Jun  1 16:00:00 2005
RZ> (utc/gmt)    Wed Jun  1 14:00:00 2005
RZ> 
RZ> 
RZ> But why:

try reading documentation on time_t (e.g. in glibc manual)

again, the following commandos _do_not_ convert time_t back to human 
readable format. unfortunately (AFAIK), date has only the way 
humanreadable -> time_t (see example above)

RZ> #  date  -d  "1970-01-01 1117634400 sec CET"
RZ> Wed Jun  1 15:00:00 CEST 2005
RZ> #  date  -d  "1970-01-01 1117634400 sec CEST"
RZ> Wed Jun  1 15:00:00 CEST 2005
RZ> #  date  -d  "1970-01-01 1117634400 sec GMT"
RZ> Wed Jun  1 16:00:00 CEST 2005
RZ> # date  -d   "1970-01-01 1117634400 sec WET"
RZ> Wed Jun  1 16:00:00 CEST 2005


        Sergei
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