Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2005-04-30 15:43:32
>>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

LT> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> I'll happily depend on libcurl, but I put my foot down on that tool of the 
>> devil called "autoconf".

LT> Btw, looking at curl's "getdate.c", it doesn't seem to be _that_ much more 
LT> different from the date parsing we used to have. In particular, it 
LT> actually uses "mktime()" twice and subtracts out the difference.

If we are going to lift code from somewhere, why don't we steal
from a pro who knows what he is doing?  

One careful implementation of my-mktime() I know of is the one
by Paul Eggert, found in patch (maketime.c::tm2time).

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