From: Kevin Day Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 03:05:55 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Update: Add documentation about EpochTime compliment to Time. X-Git-Tag: 0.5.4~33 X-Git-Url: https://git.kevux.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6214c61e43c7a697d05960aa78fb6c4aa504d556;p=fll Update: Add documentation about EpochTime compliment to Time. --- diff --git a/level_3/controller/documents/time.txt b/level_3/controller/documents/time.txt index d04df8a..73b8aa4 100644 --- a/level_3/controller/documents/time.txt +++ b/level_3/controller/documents/time.txt @@ -23,3 +23,17 @@ Time Documentation: This Year has no minimum or maximum but may not have decimals. For example, "2020:86400000000000" would represent: January 02, 2020 0:00 UTC. For example, "2020:86.4 TT" would represent: January 02, 2020 0:00 UTC. + + A second unit of Time, called EpochTime, works the same way as Time except it represents seconds since Epoch where Epoch is defined as the povided year (unlike UNIX Epoch). + This unit is desigated "E". + The format is similar to Time, except there are two colons: "1970::1620874738" would represent: May 13, 2021 2:58:58 UTC. + + A unit of EpochTime by default is assumed to be in UTC. + 1 (Earth) year ~= 31536000 EpochTime or 31.536 GE (GigaEpochTime). + 1 (Earth) day = 86400 EpochTime + 1 (Earth) hour = 3600 EpochTime + 1 (Earth) minute = 60 EpochTime + 1 (Earth) second = 1 EpochTime + 1 GT (GigaTime) = 1 EpochTime + + Consequentially, 1 day in units of EpochTime is easily represented as 86.4 KE (KiloEpochTime).