localtime_r

[Will Bryant]

Keresztfalvi Laszlo wrote:

>I've found that localtime_r() is a macro in pthread-win32 simply referencing
>the localtime() function. According to the MSDN localtime() works just like
>the UNIX version.. each call overwrites the static struct tm storage.
>
>Is this really thread safe?
>
>  
>
Yes; it uses a thread-specific buffer on win32.  So it's overwritten 
with every call in that thread.

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