;;; number of seconds since 1970-01-01
;;; I'm obliged to Erik Naggum's "Long, Painful History of Time" paper
-;;; <http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~enag/lugm-time.html> for the choice of epoch
-;;; here. By starting the year in March, we avoid having to test the month
-;;; whenever deciding whether to account for a leap day. 2000 is especially
-;;; special, because it's disvisible by 400, hence the start of a 400 year
-;;; leap year cycle
+;;; <http://naggum.no/lugm-time.html> for the choice of epoch here.
+;;; By starting the year in March, we avoid having to test the month
+;;; whenever deciding whether to account for a leap day. 2000 is
+;;; especially special, because it's disvisible by 400, hence the
+;;; start of a 400 year leap year cycle
;;; If a universal-time is after time_t runs out, we find its offset
;;; from 1st March of whichever year it falls in, then add that to