Duplicated effort

[WHarms at bfs.de]

Hi Ado,
as i wrote at the beginning of the time_t discussion, ctime, asctime, etc is
obsolet today.
the question is only how far are you willing to go ? drop the meaning of a
24h day to include mars-days (or Jupiter-days) ?
Or stay on earth and extend struct tm with a tz_offset, and a tz_name ? to make
official what is already custom.

regards,
walter






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From: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI)" <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov>
Subject: Duplicated effort
Date: 10/11/04 21:19

I'm thinking that a way to reduce the amount of coding to take care of
wide-ranging tm_year values is to have asctime rely on strftime to get a
correct year string.
Can anyone else think of problems with this approach?

				--ado