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Re: "Converting Unix timestamp to date/time"
Crap, don't get me started on daylight savings time.
2023-09-11 · 8 months ago
🚀 stack [OP] · 2023-09-11 at 17:05:
I am passing the buck to the user, of course. A variable will keep the timezone adjustment offset, and whoever cares about this will set it to the right amount.
At this point, it is very likely that I will be the only user anyway.
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Converting Unix timestamp to date/time — Without any outside libraries. All we have is a Unix timestamp, seconds since Jan. 1, 1970. I'm looking for a minimalistic solution for my tiny nForth, but really curious if anyone has tricks up their sleeve for this kind of a task. I'm willing to ignore leap seconds for now. So far I got the time part: add timezone in seconds, divide by 86400 to get days, and use the remainder for time in seconds. The rest is trivial, dividing by 60 for minutes and 60...