Time stamp incompatibility...may not be GnuPG's fault

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Nov 7 11:21:39 CET 2000


On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Hideki Saito wrote:

> Internally, it is recognized as Nov 07 04:06:40 2000 (GMT) which is 
> 973570000 seconds since 1970/1/1 00:00 GMT. 

This is right because the specs say:

|3.5. Time fields
|
|   A time field is an unsigned four-octet number containing the number
|   of seconds elapsed since midnight, 1 January 1970 UTC.
      

> gpg: Signature made 11/07/00 13:06:40  using DSA key ID

So GnuPG (Unix) is right.  Did you test what GnuPG (Windows) shows?
I remember that there is some confusion with the Windows localtime()
function.

  Werner
  



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