mktime and tm_yday calculations?

Wed Jul 16 17:29:00 GMT 2003

Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca> writes:

|> Why was mktime never augmented to calculate the appropriate other
|> values directly from a tm_year/tm_yday pair?

Because the C standard forbids it.

7.23.2.3#2 ... The original values of the tm_wday and tm_yday components
of the structure are ignored, ...

Andreas.

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