Common Lisp Tips: The Common Lisp and Unix epochs
The Common Lisp epoch begins at 00:00 on January 1, 1900, GMT. get-universal-time returns a universal time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since then.
The Unix epoch begins at 00:00 on January 1, 1970, GMT. time() returns the number of seconds elapsed since then.
It’s easy to…
This is pretty cool, but it doesn’t make lisp seem any less crusty. Anyone know why this difference?
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