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Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70...
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Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70M years ago.
Nope! That was just a typo bug in date.c:
int seconds = days * 84600;
See the transposed digits? That makes it exactly 1800 seconds shorter than 86400, or half an hour.
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on March 12, 2020
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the shell is not aware of date.c
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Nope! That was just a typo bug in date.c:
See the transposed digits? That makes it exactly 1800 seconds shorter than 86400, or half an hour.