* [TUHS] Fwd: [tz] Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming In C, by Eric S. Raymond
@ 2014-09-30 22:13 random832
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Eric S. Raymond has written an article about the history of the time.h
functions at http://www.catb.org/esr/time-programming/
From his blog post announcing it (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6311):
> The C/UNIX library support for time and calendar programming is a nasty mess of historical contingency. I have grown tired of having to re-learn its quirks every time I’ve had to deal with it, so I’m doing something about that.
>
> Announcing Time, Clock, and Calendar Programming In C, a document which attempts to chart the historical clutter (so you can ignore it once you know why it’s there) and explain the mysteries.
>
> What I’ve released is an 0.9 beta version. My hope is that it will rapidly attract some thoroughgoing reviews so I can release a 1.0 in a week or so. More than that, I would welcome a subject matter expert as a collaborator.
When I saw it I thought it might be generally interesting to people who
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