Changeset 3167

Timestamp:

02/11/08 01:22:29 (10 months ago)

Author:

schveiguy

Message:

Added more documentation to help explain how Tango time relates to Unix time (references #763)

Files:

trunk/tango/time/Time.d

r3166	r3167
468	468	in the Gregorian calendar is Time.epoch - TimeSpan.days(1).
469	469
	470	Note: common system epochs are provided to allow calculation of time
	471	in other time systems. For example, to convert a Time myTime to Unix
	472	time (number of seconds elapsed since 1/1/1970), you can write:
	473
	474	--------
	475	auto unixTime = (myTime - Time.epoch1970).seconds;
	476	--------
	477
470	478	******************************************************************************/
471	479
…	…
482	490	/// Represents the smallest and largest Time value.
483	491	static const Time min = {minimum},
484		max = {maximum},
485		epoch = {0},
486		epoch1601 = {TimeSpan.Epoch1601},
487		epoch1970 = {TimeSpan.Epoch1970};
	492	max = {maximum};
	493
	494	/// Represents the epoch (1/1/0001)
	495	static const Time epoch = {0};
	496
	497	/// Represents the epoch of 1/1/1601 (Commonly used in Windows systems)
	498	static const Time epoch1601 = {TimeSpan.Epoch1601};
	499
	500	/// Represents the epoch of 1/1/1970 (Commonly used in Unix systems)
	501	static const Time epoch1970 = {TimeSpan.Epoch1970};
488	502
489	503	/**********************************************************************