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From: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Computing Day of the Week
Keywords: given month and day
Message-ID: <660@khijol.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 01:42:59 GMT
References: <1894@ntmtka.mn.org> <365@anacom1.UUCP> <1503@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
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Organization: Deadly Force, Inc., aka Clint Eastwood School of Diplomacy
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In article <1503@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle) writes:
>
>While we're on the subject, what I would like to get my hands on is the
>source to the ctime(3) function and the date(1) program, or some reasonable
>facsimile(s) thereof.  In particular, something that handles timezones and
>daylight savings time.

No, you don't.  I've looked at the source for date(1), and it's HORRIBLE.
Yuck!  You're better off writing your own...

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