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  12. From: dmf@cs.uchicago.edu (Derek M. Flynn)
  13. Subject: Re: Converting struct tm to time_t
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  16. Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:40:39 GMT
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  18.  
  19. Andrew Gierth wrote:
  20.  
  21. > at least some systems have a timegm() function which is the UTC
  22. > equivalent of mktime(). For those that don't, the straightforward
  23. > calculation method is probably sufficient, though an alternative
  24. > might be to do putenv("TZ=GMT0"); and then use mktime()....
  25.  
  26. Don't forget to call tzset() after putenv and before mktime
  27.