Re: timezone macro for autoconf?

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From: Paul Eggert
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:00

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Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

>PHP3 has a function gmmktime() which is the inverse of gmtime(),
>i.e. it takes a struct tm * in GMT and returns a time_t.  

Unfortunately, it's buggy.  It assumes that the sign of 'tm_gmtoff'
is the same as that of 'timezone', which is incorrect.  It may have
other bugs but that's the first one I found by inspection.

>Boy, do I wish Unix had that function.

It's an action item for the next C standard.
(Can you wait 10 years?  :-)

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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Subject: Re: timezone macro for autoconf?
Date: 2000/04/24
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