On 11 July 2016 at 21:23, J William Piggott <elseifthen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > We use mktime(3) for portability. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#index-timegm > > Portability note: mktime is essentially universally available. timegm is > rather rare. For the most portable conversion from a UTC broken-down > time to a simple time, set the TZ environment variable to UTC, call > mktime, then set TZ back. I don't think hwclock(8) is portable. It has ioctl(2) calls, and such. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
