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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: ANSI C date & time library functions.
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Date: 10 Feb 90 02:02:29 GMT
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Are you allowed to compare time_ts without using difftime()?  Or
should I write "difftime(now, then) < 0" instead of "now < then"?

Can time_t be a pointer (converted to an arithmetic if necessary)?
Imagine
	typedef struct tm * time_t;
time() would allocate a new struct tm and return a pointer to it.
This is assuming you don't compare time_t values directly and don't
try to read or write them.
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