[LEAPSECS] A new use for Pre-1972 UTC
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Feb 17 16:03:08 EST 2009
In message <20090217210205.GB91747 at davros.org>, "Clive D.W. Feather" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>> It would have been even better to write:
>>
>> An ISO C "time_t" timestamp.
>
>ISO C doesn't define the type, format, or meaning of time_t - it can even
>be floating point or (IIRC) a structure.
No, it must be an arithmetic type.
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