<<On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:26:23 -0500 (EST), Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> said:
Is there any hope of their adding timegm() as well?
I doubt it. There are already problems with the existing definitions, and adding such an interface would probably make it even worse. One of the conflicting intents of the specification is that one could implement timegm() as a simple formula, an example of which is given in the ``Base Definitions'' under ``Seconds Since the Epoch''. That definition has been the source of much conflict over the history of the POSIX effort, and much of the traffic on the austin-group mailing-list last month arose from the same issue. I am told there are not supposed to be any new interfaces added at this point in the process, even if consensus could be reached. -GAWollman