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To: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH [5.6.0-RC1] return value of localtime() not documented
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:43:39 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:31:00 -0700
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:43:39 EDT, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
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>Last month, I submitted a patch that added the following text to the
>`localtime' and `gmtime' sections of perlfunc.pod:
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>> +0 indicating Sunday and 3 indicating Wednesday. $yday is the day of
>> +the year, in the range C<1..365> (or C<1..366> in leap years.)
I don't think this is true (at least on Linux and Windows). The
manpage on my nearest RedHat 6.0 box has this in the gmtime(3) and
localtime(3) pages:
tm_yday
The number of days since January 1, in the range 0 to 365.
It's documented similarly on Windows (at least in the MS Visual C
runtime).
Sarathy
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