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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2020-01-21 14:26:38 -0800
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2020-01-21 23:37:05 +0000
commita152e041fa893ba672dcb1337c596ec15fdb0c0d (patch)
tree17debde7ec0104d70d12e67bb4e5d8764ef076d1 /wsutil/epochs.h
parentd44c5e45cbb5e9ece96cab6a62793dd24ec52b7d (diff)
Put various epoch time deltas into wsutil/epochs.h.
There are some deltas between the UN*X epoch and other epochs that are used in a number of places; put them into a header. Change-Id: Ia2d9d69b9d91352d730d97d9e4897518635b4861 Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/35895 Petri-Dish: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> Tested-by: Petri Dish Buildbot Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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+/* epochs.h
+ * Definitions of epoch values for various absolute time types.
+ *
+ * Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
+ * By Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
+ * Copyright 2006 Gerald Combs
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+ */
+
+#ifndef __EPOCHS_H__
+#define __EPOCHS_H__
+
+#include <glib.h>
+
+/*
+ * Deltas between the epochs for various non-UN*X time stamp formats and
+ * the January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 (proleptic?) UTC epoch for the UN*X time
+ * stamp format.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * 1900-01-01 00:00:00 (proleptic?) UTC.
+ * Used by a number of time formats.
+ */
+#define EPOCH_DELTA_1900_01_01_00_00_00_UTC 2208988800U
+
+/*
+ * 1904-01-01 00:00:00 (proleptic?) UTC.
+ * Used in the classic Mac OS, and by formats, such as MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4),
+ * which is based on Apple's QuickTime format.
+ */
+#define EPOCH_DELTA_1904_01_01_00_00_00_UTC 2082844800U
+
+/*
+ * 1601-01-01 (proleptic Gregorian) 00:00:00 (proleptic?) UTC.
+ * The Windows NT epoch, used in a number of places.
+ *
+ * This is
+ *
+ * 369*365.25*24*60*60-(3*24*60*60+6*60*60)
+ *
+ * 1970-1601 is 369; 365.25 is the average length of a year in days,
+ * including leap years.
+ *
+ * 3 days are subtracted because 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap
+ * years, as, while they're all evenly divisible by 4, they're also
+ * evently divisible by 100, but not evently divisible by 400, so
+ * we need to compensate for using the average length of a year in
+ * days, which assumes a leap year every 4 years, *including* every
+ * 100 years.
+ *
+ * I'm not sure what the extra 6 hours are that are being subtracted.
+ */
+#define EPOCH_DELTA_1601_01_01_00_00_00_UTC G_GUINT64_CONSTANT(11644473600)
+
+#endif /* __EPOCHS_H__ */