On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gé Weijers <g...@weijers.org> wrote:
> - get the time_t value
> - use gmtime() to get a 'struct tm' value representing UTC
- calculate the # of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00+0:00 from this
> representation, which except for counting leap years is simple enough.
>
> The downside is that this code is not reentrant.
>
That's not a concern for this particular case.
> Using strftime("%s", ...) does not work either, "%s" is non-standard (it's
> not even part of POSIX).
>
> Isn't writing fully portable C code wonderful?
>
> BTW: I would not blame anyone for ignoring this issue....
>
Actually, i've fought with this in another tree, and the gmtime-using code i
posted a couple mails back "seems to work", but i had to google high and low
before i found the is_dst=-1 bit. i _really_ want GMT time, so i'm willing
to put in a bit of effort for it.
--
----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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