From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:46:25 GMT
Subject: Re: git.git object database at kernel.org?
Message-ID: <426D3B01.8060408@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504241553580.18901@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>    NOTE! The fact that "mktime()" seems to depend on the timezone in which 
>    it is made seems to make this questionable. I had always assumed that 
>    mktime would take the timezone from the "struct tm", and thus be 
>    reliable, but somebody seems to have shown that that is not the case at 
>    all!
> 

No, mktime() always uses the local time zone.  It's the inverse of 
localtime().  If you know the timezone offset (e.g. if you have a RFC 
2822-style date) then you're probably better off rolling your own; 
otherwise setenv("TZ"); tzset(); mktime(); is of course also doable.

	-hpa