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[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote:

>

> Applications don't fill out struct tm's to compute time_t's.  If they

> all did, time_t's definitions wouldn't matter so much.  However, many of

> them *KNOW* that it *IS* seconds since 1970 (with leap seconds swizzled

> in, so you can ignore them entirely).


There are good reasons for this. I mentioned Java because libraries for
languages other than C often want a native implementation of time and date
functions so that they fit in better with the rest of the language.
There's also the fact that the standard C library is bad in many ways so
it's common for programmers to try to improve on it.

Tony.
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