in reply to Re: Timegm and timelocal
in thread Timegm and timelocal

I see, since I just need the conversion to compute for the seconds elapsed then timegm will do right?

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Re^3: Timegm and timelocal
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jun 07, 2007 at 06:58 UTC

    Right, so long as you can ignore leap seconds.

    After Compline,
    Zaxo

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      And DST changes.

      However, with the "10 minute" clarification below, Skeeve's solution is a good one.

      --MidLifeXis

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      Based on my very shallow understanding of leap seconds, they won't happen within a single day, if that's the case then I'm still ok with timegm since the elapsed time of my transactions are at maximum 10 minutes apart
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