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Re: [PATCH] gmtime man page

Ping.

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Brian Ford wrote:

> The gmtime man page says it assumes the time at clock represents a local
> time, and that it converts it to UTC.  This is not true.  clock is the
> standard time_t representation of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 on
> January 1, 1970, UTC, thus it is not a local time and no UTC conversion
> occurs.
>
> 2006-07-19  Brian Ford  <Brian.Ford@FlightSafety.com>
>
> 	* libc/time/gmtime.c: Correct man page; clock is not a
> 	local time and no conversion occurs.

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Brian Ford
Lead Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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