Re: Noooooo... (localtime in Unix98)

["M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

Bart Schuller <schuller@lunatech.com> wrote
> This piece of the RISKS digest caught my eye. The "open"software website
> won't let me in to check, unfortunately.
> 
> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:56:42 -0500
> From: "John J. Francini" <francini@progress.com>
> Subject: Unix98 localtime
> 
> The problem is that it's not so simple as that.  The UNIX98 standard
> changed the localtime() function so that the year value is redefined to
> be the "year in the current century" rather than "years since 1900".

I don't know anything about UNIX98, but this looks like typical FUD
to me.    Any system that defines localtime() like (or to be pedantic,
struct tm) is in violation of ANSI C.     So I don't believe it.


Mike Guy

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