[tz] Epic fail for DST fallback in hospital health records

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca
Mon Nov 5 20:10:05 UTC 2018


On 2018-11-05 01:04, John Wilcock wrote:
> Le 05/11/2018 à 02:59, Guy Harris a écrit :
>> SYS$GETTIME on VMS supplies "the number of 100-nanosecond intervals
>> since November 17, 1858." (I guess Cutler likes .1 microseconds as a
>> unit)
> 
> FWIW, VMS also has at least one parameter (namely how long it waits for the user
> to enter the system time during boot if the time-of-year clock is invalid) whose
> value is measured in microfortnights.

$ units microfortnight
1e-6 fortnight = 1.2096 s

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