[PATCH] gmtime man page

Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Thu Aug 17 18:40:00 GMT 2006


Sorry, didn't see this.  Patch applied.

-- Jeff J.

Brian Ford wrote:
> Ping.
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Brian Ford wrote:
> 
> 
>>The gmtime man page says it assumes the time at clock represents a local
>>time, and that it converts it to UTC.  This is not true.  clock is the
>>standard time_t representation of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 on
>>January 1, 1970, UTC, thus it is not a local time and no UTC conversion
>>occurs.
>>
>>2006-07-19  Brian Ford  <Brian.Ford@FlightSafety.com>
>>
>>	* libc/time/gmtime.c: Correct man page; clock is not a
>>	local time and no conversion occurs.
> 
> 



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