Index: RTC.c
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diff -u -rcc035ecce50596a70d2489e0f591e769d5f6977c -r1b53e0ea50bed8f2155aec6e9c888a4b776b0edc
--- RTC.c	(.../RTC.c)	(revision cc035ecce50596a70d2489e0f591e769d5f6977c)
+++ RTC.c	(.../RTC.c)	(revision 1b53e0ea50bed8f2155aec6e9c888a4b776b0edc)
@@ -100,19 +100,18 @@
 
 #define RTC_ACCURACY_TIMEOUT                1000U   // ms
 #define RTC_ACCURACY_TIMEOUT_TOLERANCE      1050U   // ms
-#define RTC_PUBLISH_INTERVAL                1U      // seconds
+#define RTC_PUBLISH_INTERVAL                18U     // Task general counts
 
 #define TIMER_COUNTER_TO_REQUEST_READ       18U
 #define MAX_ALLOWED_FAILED_RTC_TRANSFERS    3U
 #define MAX_ALLOWED_RTC_RAM_BYTES           100U
 #define MAX_ALLOWED_RTC_RAM_ADDRESS         512U
 #define TEN                                 10U
 #define YEAR_2000                           2000U
-
-#ifndef _VECTORCAST_
-#define EPOCH_YEAR                          1970U
-#else
 #define EPOCH_YEAR                          1900U
+#define YEAR_1900_TO_1970_SECONDS_DIFF      2208988800U
+
+#ifdef _VECTORCAST_
 #define LOCAL_TO_GTM_TIME_CONVERSION        8U
 #endif
 
@@ -796,7 +795,6 @@
 {
     struct tm t;
     time_t epochTime;
-
     t.tm_sec  = RTCTimestampStruct.seconds;
     t.tm_min  = RTCTimestampStruct.minutes;
     t.tm_hour = RTCTimestampStruct.hours;
@@ -815,10 +813,11 @@
     // the time is in GMT so 8 hours is subtracted from the hour
     // to simulate GMT for VectorCAST
     t.tm_hour = t.tm_hour - LOCAL_TO_GTM_TIME_CONVERSION;
-#endif
-
     epochTime = mktime(&t);
-
+#else
+    epochTime = mktime(&t);
+    epochTime = epochTime - YEAR_1900_TO_1970_SECONDS_DIFF;
+#endif
     return (U32)epochTime;
 }