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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Looking for a tool to make UNIX-Time
Message-ID: <1949@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 28 Nov 90 00:52:18 GMT
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In article <18748@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>
>gack!  you can compute it directly without looping.  if you don't
>care about daylight savings time corrections you can get it without
>ever having to call localtime.
>

Yeah, just what the guy wanted.  Bugger correctness -- I mean you wouldn't
want to write code that was actually _correct_, would you now?

``As long as you don't care that it works'' -- a truly fine philosophy.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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