The type of time_t (was: struct tm -> time_t converter wanted)

Stephen J. Friedl friedl at vsi.COM
Fri Oct 28 15:11:48 AEST 1988


Somebody writes:
>With the Epoch defined as it is for Unix (Jan 1 00:00:00, 1970), it is
>desireable to have a signed `time_t' type.  Although I didn't, the world
>did exist before 1970.

In article <334 at auspex.UUCP>, guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
> 
> The world also existed before whatever 1902 or so; having "time_t" be


So, Guy, you were born in 1902?  :-) :-) :-)
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