Talk:C date and time functions

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Why not? What else would you put here? --a_dergachev 07:58, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He is correct, see WP:NOT#HOWTO. -- intgr [talk] 14:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah Guys.. Just something to think about.. An encyclopedic Article on time.h would be - well just useless. And i'm happy with the english wikipedia as it is, with thousands of articles to even minor details, headerfiles, comic characters and so on. Please just don't take the german wiki as model, its so full of relevancy that it became entirely irrelevant. Rules like the NO-HOWTO are nice, but only IF the article would be better in an encyclopedic form - not in this case.77.11.26.13 (talk) 20:43, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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time_t

Regarding the "time_t - time since epoch type". This is not true actually as shown in the specification http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf See on page 350 at 7.23.1.(4) Components of time: "The range and precision of times representable in clock_t and time_t are implementation-defined.". Thus, it should be "time_t - time since epoch type for most compilers such as gcc"! (see http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/glibc-2.2.3/html_chapter/libc_21.html) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.244.120.156 (talk) 13:55, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand what was wrong with the previous statement. time_t means "time since epoch" or "calendar time" in all contexts as per specification. The thing that is undefined is the format of that type, not what it represents. Thus since the the previous definition doesn't specify anything about the format, it's still correct. 1exec1 (talk) 16:28, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed rename

I propose to rename the article from C date and time operations to C date and time functions per WP:COMMONNAME. 1exec1 (talk) 16:29, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]