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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: git.git object database at kernel.org?
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:46:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <426D3B01.8060408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504241553580.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>    NOTE! The fact that "mktime()" seems to depend on the timezone in which 
>    it is made seems to make this questionable. I had always assumed that 
>    mktime would take the timezone from the "struct tm", and thus be 
>    reliable, but somebody seems to have shown that that is not the case at 
>    all!
> 

No, mktime() always uses the local time zone.  It's the inverse of 
localtime().  If you know the timezone offset (e.g. if you have a RFC 
2822-style date) then you're probably better off rolling your own; 
otherwise setenv("TZ"); tzset(); mktime(); is of course also doable.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-25 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <7vhdhvstb2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-04-24 23:08 ` git.git object database at kernel.org? Linus Torvalds
2005-04-25 18:46   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-25 19:05     ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-26  0:32     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-26  0:48       ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-26  0:58         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-26  1:05           ` H. Peter Anvin

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