[rrd-users] Re: rrd_updade confusion

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:33:20AM -0700, winkey wrote:

> when updateing data and you use a time_t value instead of N: is this utc
> time aswell?

It is in seconds since the unix-epoch.  An "amount of seconds since" has
no concept of timezones.

$ date -u +%s; date +%s; date -u; date
1092922892
1092922892
Thu Aug 19 13:41:32 UTC 2004
Thu Aug 19 15:41:32 CEST 2004

As you can see, specifying "-u" (use utc) does not matter for the epoch
time whereas it does for wallclock time.

HTH
Alex
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