June 1, 1988
8:14 a.m.
Bradley White says:
Just as an aside, UNIX time_t values are not an appropriate representation of time in a distributed system. An ASCII rendition of UT is much better.
To continue the aside: The appropriate ISO standards for representing date and time are: ISO 4031, ISO 3307, and ISO 2014. Send me mail if you want some functions that convert time_t to/from a subset of those ISO standards. Bob Devine