Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!mmdf
From: mntgfx!lisch@uunet.uu.net (Ray Lischner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: re: reverse of localtime()
Message-ID: <2919@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 90 01:19:22 GMT
Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.virginia.edu
Reply-To: mntgfx!lisch@uunet.uu.net
Lines: 17

Paul E. Maisano writes:
 > My unix manual (on SUN/OS) says there is a timelocal() function.
 > Is this a worthwhile addition to perl ? I can't see a simple way of
 > doing it in perl.
 > 
 > I was originally going to write the program in C for speed reasons but
 > I think perl would be fast enough. 
 > 
 > I don't really want to write it in C but... :-(

The timelocal() function is not standard UNIX or ANSI C.  My old copy
of the ANSI draft mentions mktime() to build a time_t from a struct tm*.
Regardless of name, the functionality would be nice to have in Perl.

For those (like me) without  timelocal(), mktime(), etc., there is
a C version of localtime(), timelocal(), ctime(), et al., in the
comp.sources.unix archives on UUNET.