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| author | Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> | 2006-08-17 19:53:15 +0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> | 2006-08-17 19:53:15 +0400 |
| commit | 84a7940382b1c6ced4a3898145153e5a7dd541df (patch) | |
| tree | 4340b383e6352bb9f31e0f16b4cb8c90ba4a85bc /newlib/libc/time | |
| parent | 30691bd7563ec3472e9f7d5277622361ecfc244e (diff) | |
2006-08-17 Brian Ford <Brian.Ford@FlightSafety.com>
* libc/time/gmtime.c: Correct man page; clock is not a
local time and no conversion occurs.
Diffstat (limited to 'newlib/libc/time')
| -rw-r--r-- | newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c b/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c index d8e687559..40116c285 100644 --- a/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c +++ b/newlib/libc/time/gmtime.c @@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ TRAD_SYNOPSIS struct tm *<[res]>; DESCRIPTION -<<gmtime>> assumes the time at <[clock]> represents a local time. -<<gmtime>> converts it to UTC (Universal Coordinated Time, also known in some -countries as GMT, Greenwich Mean time), then converts the -representation from the arithmetic representation to -the traditional representation defined by <<struct tm>>. +<<gmtime>> takes the time at <[clock]> representing the number +of elapsed seconds since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970, Universal +Coordinated Time (UTC, also known in some countries as GMT, +Greenwich Mean time) and converts it to a <<struct tm>> +representation. <<gmtime>> constructs the traditional time representation in static storage; each call to <<gmtime>> or <<localtime>> will overwrite the |