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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Converting struct tm to time_t
Date: 29 Dec 2000 15:21:48 -0800
Organization: The Eyrie
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In comp.unix.programmer, Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Russ> INN currently uses this, which seems to work fairly well. I'm
> Russ> the author of this code; you can consider it to be in the
> Russ> public domain. Note that this code requires that time_t be an
> Russ> arithmetic type, which may not work properly on some non-UNIX
> Russ> platforms (it could presumably be replaced by a long or
> Russ> something).
> heh. insert religious war about leap-second handling here :-)
> (or on second thoughts, don't)
Heh. :) The assumption is that time_t is in UTC; if it's in TAI instead,
you'd have to adjust for leap seconds.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>