From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 05:43:32 GMT Subject: Re: Trying to use AUTHOR_DATE Message-ID: <7vacng3jln.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: >>>>> "LT" == Linus Torvalds 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).