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Re: mktime and tm_yday calculations?


> |> Why was mktime never augmented to calculate the appropriate other
> |> values directly from a tm_year/tm_yday pair?
> 
> Because the C standard forbids it.
> 
> 7.23.2.3#2 ... The original values of the tm_wday and tm_yday components
> of the structure are ignored, ...

Can strptime or strftime do the conversion then?

c.


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