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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14149 comp.lang.c++:71714 comp.lang.c:71928 comp.os.vms:88441 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!mcs.com!mikey From: mikey@mcs.com (Mike Young) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Inverse gmtime? Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 20:13:10 Organization: Fen Software, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <mikey.113.001438CC@mcs.com> References: <Cr6v4t.FqB@biles.com> <CrBInI.4p1@twinsun.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mikey.pr.mcs.net X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <CrBInI.4p1@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes: >From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) >Subject: Re: Inverse gmtime? >Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 04:18:52 GMT >Preliminary versions of the C Standard did have a `timegm' function, >which behaved like `mktime' except that it used GMT rather than local time. >`timegm' didn't make the cut to the final C Standard, but you can FTP >the source code to a public domain implementation from >elsie.nci.nih.gov in pub/tz*; `timegm' is in the localtime.c file. Paul, I ftp'ed both tz* files from nih.gov, but I can't uncompress them. gzip complains about "invalid compressed data -- crc error." Any ideas what I can do? Mike.