mktime

[Joseph S. D. Yao]

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 87 10:31:58 est
From: jsdy (Joseph S. D. Yao)
To: seismo!sun!guy
Subject: Re:  mktime
Cc: elsie!tz

(Guy:)
> unlikely that somebody would actually wait for some moment of time by
> looping and repeatedly testing the current time, as given in the
> Rationale.

I believe that this is exactly what "cron" does.  At least, some
forms of cron.

I do want to support Guy's suggestion of a canontime() and full
arithmetic support.

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