Looking for a tool to make UNIX-Time

Boyd Roberts boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz
Mon Dec 3 17:48:29 AEST 1990


In article <18761 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>
>As for not being called all that often, what if the application
>is something like "expire" which must deal with textual dates
>in article headers?  Still think it won't be called that often?

That's a different problem.  You'd compare the _components_ of a pieced
together `struct tm', not the 32 bit UNIX time.  That would be stupid.


Boyd Roberts			boyd at necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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