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|    Kenny McCormack to All    |
|    printf and time_t    |
|    05 Jan 26 07:19:02    |
      From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com              Here's kind of an old chestnut...              The question is: How can you reliably printf() a time_t value?       What conversion spec should you use?              The answer seems to be: try stuff until the compiler doesn't warn.              Note that there is now %z for size_t, but there really should be a "Just do       the right thing - you're the compiler, you know what type the arg is, do       the right thing" spec.              It turns out that in my use case, %lu works, but how can you know?       Note, BTW, that another way to do it is to use %d and case the time_t value       to (int), but that seems kludgey.              --        Nov 4, 2008 - the day when everything went        from being Clinton's fault to being Obama's fault.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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