mktime
Joseph S. D. Yao
seismo!hadron!jsdy
Wed Feb 11 16:45:36 UTC 1987
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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.
Joe Yao hadron!jsdy at seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
jsdy at hadron.COM (not yet domainised)
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