time_t

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:

> You haven't looked at the data file recently, have you?  Here's
> an example from mine:
>
>     <ts:date>2008-04-10 18:02:00 -0400</ts:date>

The issue here isn't the data file (which I assumed we all agreed
included the needed info).  The issue is that loading the
nice ascii timestamp with timezone into just a time_t field in memory 
(even a 64 bit one) loses critical info: the timezone.

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