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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: The type of time_t (was: struct tm -> time_t converter wanted)
Summary: Birthdays?
Message-ID: <914@vsi.COM>
Date: 28 Oct 88 05:11:48 GMT
References: <442@grand.UUCP> <8700@smoke.BRL.MIL> <6964@cdis-1.uucp> <334@auspex.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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Somebody writes:
>With the Epoch defined as it is for Unix (Jan 1 00:00:00, 1970), it is
>desireable to have a signed `time_t' type.  Although I didn't, the world
>did exist before 1970.

In article <334@auspex.UUCP>, guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
> 
> The world also existed before whatever 1902 or so; having "time_t" be


So, Guy, you were born in 1902?  :-) :-) :-)
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