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Re: mktime and tm_yday calculations?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at baldric dot uwo dot ca>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:47:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: mktime and tm_yday calculations?
- References: <20030716142225.GA18463@systemhalted>
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca> writes:
|> Why was mktime never augmented to calculate the appropriate other
|> values directly from a tm_year/tm_yday pair?
Because the C standard forbids it.
7.23.2.3#2 ... The original values of the tm_wday and tm_yday components
of the structure are ignored, ...
Andreas.
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