From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: "DJGPP-Workers" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: POSIX getdate() function
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:49:34 +0200
Message-ID: <CAEGKOHJKAAFPKOCLHDICEINCEAA.tim.van.holder@pandora.be>
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

I'd like to implement the POSIX getdate() function (parses a
given string using a set of possible format specs and returns
a struct tm* with the corresponding date/time), mainly because
it looks like a challenge.

Of course, there is also the not-so-POSIX DOS getdate() function.
What is the recommended way of dealing with this?
 a) not implementing the POSIX getdate() function
 b) use _posix_getdate as name, with a #define to getdate in
    time.h
 c) rename the DOS getdate to _dos_getdate and place a define
    to getdate in dos.h
 d) some other resolution