ANSI C date & time library functions.

[Geoff Clare]

In article <15919 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>As far as I can see, the only reason that it has to be arithmetic at all is so
>that time() can return (time_t)-1 to flag an error.  This is rather bizarre,
>since existing Unix implementations never return an error from time();

It's needed so that mktime() can return (time_t)-1 to flag an error (for
unrepresentable times).
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