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seismo!hplabs!hpfcla!hpfclj!hpfcdg!rgt seismo!hplabs!hpfcla!hpfclj!hpfcdg!rgt
Mon May 4 15:04:16 UTC 1987


> The problem with all this is that mktime is supposed to be the
> inverse of localtime, if it was the inverse of gmtime, or if it
> had a zone parameter, then this kind of thing could be made to
> work.  But then mktime would be useless for more common functions,
> especially that of hiding the timezone & dst rules from the application.

Thank you for stating it so well.  That is why we NEED the tm_tzadj member
added to the tm structure.

Ron Tolley






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