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Re: Missing strptime

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 25, 2007, 01:03 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > The only user for strptime is convert-objects, a program that should 
> > probably move to contrib/ anyway.  It was used once, a long time ago, 
> > to convert from the old format, which hashed the compressed contents, 
> > to the current format, which hashes the contents _before_ compression.
> 
> Actually, it also changes the date format, I think.
Yes, right, that was actually why strptime() was needed.

Ciao, Dscho

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