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From:	Ian Miller <itmiller AT dra DOT hmg DOT gb>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	time_t question
Date:	Mon, 05 Aug 1996 12:11:35 +0100
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I notice that time(), as required by ANSI C, returns -1 if
the time is not available, but that its return type, time_t,
is unsigned int. Of course the time *is* available in djgpp
so this does not really matter. I just wonder why time_t is
not a signed type.

-- 
Ian Miller, DORSET, UK

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