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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: pointer alignment when int != char *
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 09:55:16 EDT
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In article <27183@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-I find the presence of
-the date/time functions in the C standard somewhat questionable, as that sort
-of date/time conversion is usually an OS function - both the internal format
-used to represent dates and/or times, and the printable format generally used,
-are OS-dependent.

But the proposed ANSI C standard guarantees enough about these functions
to make them useful for portable programs.  That seems like a win.