Re: [Jython-users] Time Conflict?

[Mike H. <th...@bi...>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:02:59PM -0700, Campbell, Garrett wrote:
> looks like utc seconds vs local milliseconds
> look at the doc.

Yeah, you're right -- from the Java docs:

		  getTime

		  public long getTime()

		  Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT
		  represented by this Date object.

But Python says the same thing:
(from http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-time.html)
		  time()

		  Return the time as a floating point number expressed in seconds 
		  since the epoch, in UTC. 

And in Jython, it says that is is the same epoch
	>>> time.gmtime(0)
   (1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0)
   >>> time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000", time.gmtime(0))
   'Thu, 01 January 1970 00:00:00 +0000'


This only deepens the mystery . . .

-- mikeh