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Date:	Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:40:41 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>,
	DJGPP newsgroup <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Converting an ascii time to time_t
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Hello.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comremovebullcr_p> wrote:
> > How can a DJGPP program convert two different time formats to time_t,
> > using POSIX functions?
> 
> If I'm not totally mistaken after consulting some Unix systems'
> manpages, you can't. At least not easily. The function you would need
> is strptime().  But that doesn't seem to be required even by POSIX.
> Only the X/Open group standard set of library functions 'XPG4' seems
> to include it.

It's also defined in the Unix98 specification. See:

    http://www.unix-systems.org/
or: http://www.opengroup.org/

for a downloadable copy of the spec.

BTW did the X/Open Group change into the Open Group?

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]

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