time representation

[Bob Devine]

Bradley White says:
> Just as an aside, UNIX time_t values are not an appropriate representation
> of time in a distributed system.  An ASCII rendition of UT is much better.

  To continue the aside: The appropriate ISO standards for representing
date and time are: ISO 4031, ISO 3307, and ISO 2014.

  Send me mail if you want some functions that convert time_t to/from
a subset of those ISO standards.

Bob Devine