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  3. September 2002

Re: Time zone handling

Ah, right - the MI time of day. I think I was referring to the
representation of timestamps in the database - sorry for confusion.

Vern

At 10:09 AM 9/21/02 -0500, you wrote:

From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
> In some place or other, I've seen that date/time is stored in an 8-byte
> format - not exactly sure which it is

The "real" system time is stored as a 64-bit counter that increments
in such a way (depending on release) that in one second
4,096,000,000 ticks are counted. The counter is unsigned and
its zero point was at 12:03:06 PM Aug 23rd, 1928. This funny
point was picked such that the top bit would change at the end
of the second starting at 11:59:59 pm on Dec 31st, 1999.

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