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From: Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au (Scott Merrilees)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Looking for a tool to make UNIX-Time
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.040427.15103@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
Date: 29 Nov 90 04:04:27 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.

But then you have to know all the garbage about when daylight savings
time cuts in/out, leap years etc.  This solution is simple, has a
few guesses, and will work anywhere without telling it extra stuff.
It may not be terribly efficient, but probably won't be called that
often.  I like both it, and the side step to think of doing it that
way.

Sm
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