[m-rev.] for review: smart recompilation

[Peter Schachte]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:52:23AM +1000, Simon Taylor wrote:
> To me, messing about with environment variables to make a C function
> do what I want seems like a dumb thing to do.

It does sound pretty crude.

> As far as I can tell, the only other alternative is to pass timestamps
> around as type `tm', or as strings formatted as above, rather than
> `time_t'.

How about as an integer number of seconds since the epoch, UCT?

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