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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LSC bug?
Message-ID: <2867@husc6.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 18:26:17 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 23 18:26:17 1987
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Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: time, LSC, libraries, bug

In article <2864@husc6.UUCP> singer@endor.UUCP (Andrew Singer) writes:
>
>	I reproduced this behavior, and asked some questions, and looked
>at the library sources, and it seems that the time() and ctime() functions
>return Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), *not* local time. The fault lies with the
>documentation for not reporting this little fact, and will be corrected.

How does the library know where the computer is, to calculate GMT from
the local time?

-Eric

Eric K. Olson		olson@endor.harvard.edu		harvard!endor!olson