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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Seconds from 19xx to Date (and visa versa)
Summary: OK, I'll say it
Message-ID: <916@vsi.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 88 20:58:22 GMT
References: <5522@hoptoad.uucp> <10030@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> <8788@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <10030@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) writes:
(The dpANSI C standard had the field for seconds redefined to allow a
>value of 60 for exactly this reason.

In article <8788@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> It now ranges from 0 through 61.  You really don't want to know...


OK, I'll ask.

"Doug, why does a time_t range from 0 through 61?"

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