Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do you mean local time now or local time for all time? The former is
> easy, the latter hard. Well, it's not hard for those places where the
> offset from UTC has remained (mostly) constant, but there are some
> places that have an offset from UTC that is a function of time more
> complex than daylight savings.
> Or would C<date()> just use C<localtime()> and punt to the OS/C
> RTL/etc.?
It should just punt. ANSI/ISO C already requires that the C localtime
call deal with all of this. We can look at providing our own localtime if
the system is grossly deficient in this respect, but that's an internals
rather than a language issue.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
