Date conversion strange behaviour

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Tue Apr 25 11:56:52 EDT 2006


On my Mac OSX 10.4.6 using REV 2.6.1

1136095200,1144821600,8726400,101

On my Win XP using REV 2.6.1

1136098800,1144821600,8722800,100


HTH

Tom

On Apr 15, 2006, at 4:02 AM, Hervé Chaudet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can someone verify the result of this little script on both  
> platform Win and MacOS :
>
> on mouseUp
>   put "01/01/06" into d0
>   put "04/12/06" into d1
>   convert d0 to seconds
>   convert d1 to seconds
>   answer d0,d1,d1-d0,(d1-d0) div 86400
> end mouseUp
>
> On MacOS the result is: 1136073600,1144800000,8726400,101
> On Win: 1136077200,1144800000,8722800,100
>
> The difference between the two platform is 1 hour for d0 only, and  
> the resulting difference between d0 and d1 is 101 days on MacOSX  
> and 100 days on Win !
>
> Any idea ?
>
>
> Herve Chaudet

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