From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fix to tm2sec().
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:33:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301192133.h0JLXIw14270@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:43:15 +1300." <3E2BC4B3.12419.19E0784E@localhost>
> I'd second the strenuous objection. The 1900 base is not just a Unix
> thing - as far as I know it's part of ANSI C. It certainly works the
> same way in every C implementation I've used, on Mac, Windows, & VMS.
> Even though struct Tm isn't quite the same as struct tm, I'd hate to
> see them made even more subtly incompatible. As Doug Gwyn said the
> other day, standards have a purpose.
This reason I can't agree with. Fixing all the problems that might
crop up is a lot of work, but if I want POSIX, I know where to get
it. I don't really want POSIX, which is why I run Plan 9.
> I'd be fine with the change to make Mr Presotto's birthday day 1 (or
> should it be day 0?) though. I believe the standard is silent on this
> point.
Actually, it's not, but if Dave's birthday falls on a particularly
auspicious day, it could be all right. :-)
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-19 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-19 20:43 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-19 21:33 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2003-01-19 21:48 ` rob pike, esq.
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-20 6:49 Andrew Simmons
2003-01-20 7:21 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-20 13:55 ` David Presotto
2003-01-18 23:03 Dan Cross
2003-01-18 23:07 ` David Presotto
2003-01-18 23:12 ` Dan Cross
2003-01-19 0:10 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-19 0:20 ` Dan Cross
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