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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14226 comp.lang.c++:72794 comp.lang.c:72801 comp.os.vms:89021 comp.std.c:11274 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.os.vms,comp.std.c Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!jabberwock!daniels From: daniels@biles.com (Brad Daniels) Subject: Re: Inverse gmtime? References: <Cr6v4t.FqB@biles.com> <CrBInI.4p1@twinsun.com> Organization: Biles and Associates Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 16:15:31 GMT Message-ID: <CrCFtw.IzE@biles.com> Lines: 17 In article <CrBInI.4p1@twinsun.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> wrote: >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. Thanks! I grabbed it. Any idea why timegm() didn't make it to the final C standard? It would seem like a no-brainer to include it, since you can't really manipulate UTC effectively without it. - Brad -------------------------------------------------------------- + Brad Daniels | This posting is guaranteed + + Biles and Associates | free of all topographical + + These are my views, not B&A's | errors. + --------------------------------------------------------------