Changeset 17070 for trunk/Mars/mbase/MTime.cc

Timestamp:

09/05/13 11:26:51 (11 years ago)

Author:

tbretz

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• trunk/Mars/mbase/MTime.cc (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/Mars/mbase/MTime.cc

@@ -298 +298 @@
 // strange offsets. You can get rid of this by calling:
 //    TAxis::SetTimeFormat("[your-format] %F1995-01-01 00:00:00 GMT");
+// Note that an offset of 1970-01-01 does NOT work, because root
+// assumes that this is local time, tries to convert that to UTC,
+// which gives a negative unix time stamp in Europe, and ignores it.
 //
 Double_t MTime::GetAxisTime() const