----- Transcript of session follows ----- bad system name: elsie uux failed. code 101 554 elsie!tz... unknown mailer error 101 ----- Unsent message follows ----- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 87 10:31:58 est From: jsdy (Joseph S. D. Yao) To: seismo!sun!guy Subject: Re: mktime Cc: elsie!tz (Guy:)

unlikely that somebody would actually wait for some moment of time by looping and repeatedly testing the current time, as given in the Rationale.

I believe that this is exactly what "cron" does. At least, some forms of cron. I do want to support Guy's suggestion of a canontime() and full arithmetic support. Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP} jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)