Re: LSC bug?

Article View: comp.sys.mac

Article #19444

#19444

From: Eric Olson
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1987 22:26

13 lines
1139 bytes

In article <2864@husc6.UUCP> singer@endor.UUCP (Andrew Singer) writes:
>
>	I reproduced this behavior, and asked some questions, and looked
>at the library sources, and it seems that the time() and ctime() functions
>return Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), *not* local time. The fault lies with the
>documentation for not reporting this little fact, and will be corrected.

How does the library know where the computer is, to calculate GMT from
the local time?

-Eric

Eric K. Olson		olson@endor.harvard.edu		harvard!endor!olson

Technical Details

Message-ID: <2867@husc6.UUCP>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nbires!hao!husc6!endor!olson

References: <3320019@hpcid.HP.COM> <2864@husc6.UUCP>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nbires!hao!husc6!endor!olson
From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LSC bug?
Message-ID: <2867@husc6.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 18:26:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: husc6.2867
Posted: Wed Sep 23 18:26:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 07:51:41 EDT
References: <3320019@hpcid.HP.COM> <2864@husc6.UUCP>
Sender: news@husc6.UUCP
Reply-To: olson@endor.UUCP (Eric Olson)
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 13
Keywords: time, LSC, libraries, bug

Reply to Parent Message