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