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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Converting struct tm to time_t
Date: 03 Jan 2001 22:47:13 +0000
Organization: disorganised
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
>>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Clare <gwc@unisoft.com> writes:
Derek> Don't forget to call tzset() after putenv and before mktime
>> SUS sez this is not needed, but I think I recall some older systems
>> where it was necessary.
Geoff> POSIX.1 has said the same ever since the original 1988
Geoff> standard. Any systems that do need an explicit tzset() must
Geoff> be *really* old.
hmm. the only system that could have provoked that recollection would
have been SCO 3.2.2 or 3.2.4, but it could also just have been down to
me being overly cautious at the time.
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