From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mktime implememtation problem
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:18:08 -0500
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Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> wrote in message
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> Martin Ambuhl (mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net) wrote:
> : The standard requires of mktime that "the original values of tm_wday and
> : rm_yday components of the structure are ignored."  I have discovered
> : that if I do not set these components to possibly legal values, mktime
> : returns (time_t)-1, meaning that it fails.  Will this be corrected, or
> : do I just live with it?
>
> Which standard?

ANSI C, or ISO C, or whatever it's called now.

> Right,

At least I think so.


Damian Yerrick
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