Re: time_t to TDateTime

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:22

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Steve Aletto wrote:

>    struct tm *stm = localtime(&t);
>    if (stm)
>    {..... }
>    return(rv);

>I think this is not thread-safe. Furthermore, it introduces a 
>memory leak due to localtime(), but I don't know whether it can 
>be solved.

Not a leak...
"localtime returns a pointer to the structure containing the time
elements. This structure is a static that is overwritten with each
call."
One might assume that the multithread version of the libs store the
struct in thread local storage.

But you might want to give rv a default value if localtime fails.

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