[LEAPSECS] POSIX and C (Was: Re: ISO Influence)

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> >There is no fourth function to do the inverse of gmtime().

> 

> ISO-C introduced the "tmx" struct, which is a "tm" struct qualified

> by timezone info, so you can do this with the *xtime functions.


You are more than a decade out of date here.  This was in some C9X drafts, 
but was *removed* between N843 (1998-08-03) and N869 (1999-01-18).  It was 
never part of any actual standard version of ISO/IEC 9899.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm at polyomino.org.uk